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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Chris Slater

Beth Matthews saved lives, but no one saved hers

'I will be dead in an hour'.

Those were the words blogger Beth Matthews uttered to a staff member on a secure mental health ward in Stockport just moments after swallowing the poisonous substance that killed her.

Beth was just 26, a child support worker and a hugely talented sailor. She also had a blog. In 2019 she had tried to end her own life by jumping off a bridge. She survived, started her blog and acquired a massive online following.

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