27/10/2020
JOURNAL NEWS: Thornwood woman receives national Point of Light Award for anti-su***de work
The telephone call, answered by an unfamiliar male voice, will never be forgotten.
It was a police officer answering her daughter's phone. “There has been a problem,” the officer said.
Shock and core-cutting sorrow — the kind of all-enveloping pain that eventually ebbs but is always present — followed the officer's explanation.
It was early in the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015 that placed that call to her 23-year-old daughter,
Ali, in and learned Ali, who loved her job, loved playing her guitar and loved just about every animal there is, had killed herself.
Ali had suffered from some depression since high school but was on medication and had seemed to be doing fine. The High School and SUNY Purchase College grad was living on her own and working as a media specialist for Guiding Eyes for the Blind in . Her household included two kittens, a rabbit, and Maggie, her hiking partner and Guiding Eyes dog she was fostering.
Two days before her death, she was excited to be involved in a Today Show segment about Guiding Eyes. She handled the puppies that appeared on the show and beamed about meeting the show’s stars.
“I had no idea this was a possibility,” Fairhurst said of her daughter’s su***de....
