"...I broke my back. Carrying my mother on my back for all those years took a toll on my backbone and I had this spine issue. I will tell you I got to a suicidal point. When I was suicidal, I was so broke. One day, one of my visitors from a long time had brought this shaving powder. I wanted to put it in the water and drink. I told my mother that I'm going to kill myself because I'm tired, I'm frustrated. My mother said 'okay, you're not going alone. We have to go together.' It was in the night. So I took (the shaving powder) to my mother. I was happy that at least two of us would go jeje because this life been tire person I no go lie. So my mum took the shaving powder and the cup and the spoon and then she was pretending that she wanted to mix it. Then she paused and said 'Wait oh. It's night. It's very late in the night. If we come go die for night now, go the other side, it will be dark. We no go see road oh.' So she now said 'let's do it in the morning,' I agreed. When I was going to leave her in her room to go to my room, she called me back and said I should give her the mixture. That she would keep it there. So I gave it to her, she put it by her bed and said 'first thing in the morning, come, so that when we go to the other side, we can see road because you don't know how that place will be.' That's how I went to bed that night.

(The next morning), first thing that woke me up was..." - Shan George explains strange thing that happened to her the morning she was supposed to take her life

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