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November 17, 2011
As part of her grief counseling course at Hospice of Walla Walla, Teeny McMunn focused on one big personal loss in her life: her sister who took her own life. In one of the sessions, McMunn made this therapeutic collage of images reflecting her sister's personality.
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About Needs & Good Deeds
AYTON -- When Teeny McMunn's sister decided to take her own life, she let everyone know why.
The sister suffered from the onset of Huntington's disease, a chronic hereditary condition that destroys a patient's ability to feel, think and move. Their mother at Booker Rest Home had died from it and the young woman didn't want to suffer from the same degenerative demise or be a burden to her family.
So, she wrote everyone a letter and then killed herself with helium.
It didn't seem there was anything intentionally hurtful about her sister's suicide five years ago, but...
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