Filmmaker shares the chilling moment she found her sister dead after an overdose suicide in an apartment ‘set like a stage’

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Filmmaker Hope Litoff was the one to find her sister Ruth dead in her apartment, which she had arranged for her suicide ‘like a beautiful stage set,’ complete with individualized gifts and notes for loved ones.

Hope found herself creating her own chilling sets, arranging Ruth’s belongings, or collections of the pills – pills like the ones that Ruth used to take her own life.

Ruth had documented her battle with mental health in her artwork, journals and collections, and the painful process of sifting through it all became Hope’s own work of art: a documentary called, 32 Pills: My Sister’s suicide, which premiered on HBO last night.

As annually climbing suicide rates drive mental health experts to call for reform and awareness, the topic of suicide increasingly making its way into mainstream media, with fictionalized portrayals like Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why sparking conversations and controversy nationwide. 

f50b8d2ca77fdead1a0762db75e8f5d5 Filmmaker shares the chilling moment she found her sister dead after an overdose suicide in an apartment 'set like a stage'

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