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Trans boy who died of suicide texted best friend: ‘I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!’ before death
The Wisconsin trans boy who killed himself Monday 29 September received tribute in an emotional eulogy from close friend Foster Noone.
Noone, a fellow queer activist, wrote the eulogy on Medium about the night of Skylar Lee’s death.
Nine minutes before writing his suicide letter, Lee sent Noone three texts which read: ‘FRIEND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!’; ‘Just want you to know that’; ‘I love you so much.’
They received them the following morning.
The evening of Lee’s suicide, Lee asked Noone to read him a poem. They read: ‘Consider the Hands That Write This Letter’, a poem by American poet Aracelis Girmay.
In Lee’s suicide he wrote about how he loved fruit. Noone recounts in the eulogy Lee was a ‘pear’. ‘I feel like pears have a really calm, healing energy.
‘They’re really flavorful and yummy but the colors are really serene and pears can be great as part of a dish or be the star on their own.’
Lee said Noone was a peach.
‘I have an association of kindness [with peaches] because when I lived at my old house, in the summer my gran and I would go to this random old couple’s house who had a peach tree and they’d let us take their peaches for no reason except to be kind.’
In his suicide note Lee said he didn’t want to remembered as a ‘sob story’.
‘Don’t turn my name into a hash tag. Don’t treat this like glory suicide-fest. I am not killing myself because I am trans and queer.’
He said suicide by trans people creates a ‘chain reaction’.
Lee’s memorial service was held Friday October 2 in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Jack Flanagan
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