Woman accidentally took her own life in an attempt to ‘go halfway to heaven’ to meet dead best friend

UK: A 25-year-old bereaved bride-to-be Jazmine Howarth from the UK has accidentally took her own life after believing she could go “halfway” to heaven to say a final goodbye to her dead best friend and mother of one Dionne Corbett, who had committed suicide previously before returning “to the land of the living”.

Howarth had believed she could meet up with Corbett, 25 who was founded dead on February 26, 2016.

According to The Sun, Howarth was found dead in a community garden two weeks after 25-year-old Corbett had taken her life after battling with depression.

An inquest into Howarth's death revealed that Corbett’s death had left her devastated, as both of them had been best friends since they were babies.

The two friends even talked about getting pregnant at the same time so they could “go through it all together.”
Howarth wrote series of letters saying she wanted to see Corbett for “one last time” before coming back to “carry on with her own life”.

According to coroner Lisa Hashmi, she ruled “death by misadventure”, saying that she did not believe Howarth had meant to kill herself.

“I have no doubt that the loss of her close and very dear friend in very tragic circumstances would have had a profound effect. She attended the chapel of rest to say her goodbyes. I believe she would have found that cathartic,” she said.

“They had been of course very close, described as sisterly. Both had had conversations about what the other would do if one lost another, it may have underpinned her actions, but I could not say for sure what bearing, if any, it had.”

Hashmi said the letters Howarth left behind indicated that she had a “superstitious mind” and believed she could return.

“What I can’t ignore are the letters, while it may be that some of them were drafted in the days before her death, described as a superstitious belief in Jazmine’s mind, a number of letters were found that suggested that Jazmine wanted to speak to Dionne for one last time,” the coroner said.

“That she believed she could meet Dionne and return to the land of living. What I believe was a failure to appreciate how quick one could die. She had a mistaken belief that she could just pass beyond and return. Quite clearly that was a mistake on her part. It’s probably the naivety of youth that resulted in her sad, tragic and untimely death.”

Howarth's family and friends, had previously told the inquest that she had agreed to speak at the funeral of her best friend but said they had no clue she was planning on taking her own life on March 11.
Her aunt said:

“We actually thought that she was much more settled than she had been in a long time. Obviously when her friend Dionne died she was absolutely devastated and the day before Jazmine took her own life she went to say goodbye to Dionne in the chapel with her mum. But there was no indication to her mum that she was thinking of joining her.

“The letter to her mum indicated that what ever she intended to do she thought she could control it. She was very much planning for the funeral, she was looking at reading, planning for that. I know nobody ever expects it but we weren’t  it wasn’t even on our radar.”

Her fiance Brendan Cawley said:

“They classed each other as sisters, one wouldn’t do without the other. She broke down crying saying, ‘Yeah but I promised I would go and get her’.

“She said that she wanted to go and see her, go halfway to make sure she was all right. Two days before she died I woke up in the middle of the night and looked at Jazmine, she was writing on a piece of paper, I said, ‘What are you doing?’. She said, ‘Nothing, it’s stupid’. I thought in my head that it must be something to do with Dionne.”

Cawley said he had woken to find Howarth writing down the words from a TV signal that was tuning in and out as she said she was writing down the words in case it was a message from her friend.

Howarth and Fiance Cawley

Cawley said he remembered the moments before Howarth took her life adding that they had argued with Howarth running off and locking the door behind her.

“I think she kind of expected me to save her,” he said.

Source: The Sun