MUST READ! Parents Share Brutally Honest Obituary To Help Others Facing Addiction

Bill and Aimee Scannell want you to know their son’s deepest, darkest secret. Their 20-year-old son, Emmett, is not all that he would seem. He was honor student with a full academic scholarship, he was an athlete, a writer, a scholar. By all means, he was a good kid. Emmett was also a heroin addict. Bill and
Aimee want you know, they want everyone to know about their son’s addiction issues, the addiction that took his life, because it’s the only way to stop it from happening to someone else.
The mother and father penned an honest obituary that serves as a warning to others. Our children are really great actors, they can convincingly perform happiness and ease. The only way we can know if they are truly happy, genuinely OK, is if we take a deeper look beyond the surface. Addiction can happen to anyone, it has nothing to do with being a good or bad person or coming from a good or bad neighborhood. But when we don’t know it’s happening to someone we love, then there is no way we can help them.
“Our honesty and openness in his obituary was so that other parents can follow suit without shame or embarrassment,” Bill said.
 When you look at his picture, do you see his innocence? When you look at his picture, do you see an athlete, scholar, writer, inventor, musician, straight “A” student, or maybe even someone your daughter could date?”
 
When you look at his face in this picture, doesn’t it scream happiness??? When you look at this picture, do you not see a future success story? Ya, I see all of these things too when I look at this picture but let me ask you this question…”
 
When you look at this picture, do you see a junkie? Do you see a desperate young man that is addicted to heroin???? Do you see someone that is so sad or depressed or who has become a prisoner of his own life?”
 
This young man just passed 4 days ago from an overdose and he was only 20 years old. He lived amongst us, had parents who loved him unconditionally, and he had his whole life ahead of him!!!
To the parents of young kids, I beg you, please do not think it cannot be your child… Please do not be naive to the point that your child does not or never will use drugs or alcohol. “
 
“Please open your minds and hearts to this epidemic and make sure you always talk to your children and I just have one last question for you…When you take a picture of your child or see your child smiling from ear to ear, do they look as happy as this poor lost soul??? Please, talk to your kids!!!!! I BEG YOU!!!!!! And make this go viral!!!”