Depression is real

Awasi

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A beautiful lady from Kenya committed suicide in Austria early this month. She lived in Vienna and was suffering from depression. She had informed her close friends that she planned to end her life.

The 35-year-old lady was identified as Lucy Atieno Harter. She threw herself in front of an oncoming train on the railway line at the Bahnhof Atzgersdoftrain station on 5th July.

Lucy Atieno who died as a result of depression is set to be cremated. Her brother James Auka said that a friend and police in Austria informed the family that she wanted to take her life after her business had gone under and she was under too much pressure from her family.

This frustration of being dead broke in a foreign land drove hér to her death

“She told the friend and the police that her life had become unbearable after her business went down and thus made impossible for her to carter for her needs and those of her relatives who kept putting her under pressure to send money back home,” he said.

Auka told journalists that the folks have decided to have her body cremated in Austria. The ashes would then be shipped to Kenya for a funeral at their ancestral home in Seme, Kisumu County.

“The family deliberated for long and decided to create her in Vienna Austria to cut on costs. As you are aware shipping a corpse to Kenya is very expensive, ” said Auka, the family spokesman

She was frustrated because her family in Kenya kept on requesting her for money, yet she was dead broke in a foreign land.

Atieno’s brother, Auka, who is also the family spokesperson, said that the family decided to cremate his sister’s body. She will be incinerated at Wien Bestatting Funeral Home and Crematorium in Vienna after her untimely death.

They ashes of the beautiful lady from Kenya will then be flown into the country and buried at their home in Seme Reru, Kisumu.


 
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