What a headline about Caroline Flack tells us about society

I wasn’t going to write about this. In fact, I had something else planned but the upside of leaving writing this newsletter to the last minute is being able to react to the news. Trigger warning, I mention suicide here.

Yesterday TV presenter Caroline Flack died, as I am sure you would have seen. The news completely stopped me in my tracks and I got shivers up my spine. I didn’t stop thinking of her all afternoon but what made my blood boil was a headline on the front cover of the Mail On Sunday, which said “Shock and grief for Caroline Flack, the troubled romantic who never did find true love.” 

That just says it all about what we put value on when it comes to people’s lives. Not finding true love is apparently the worst thing in the world nevermind that she was so troubled that she took her own life.

Or as journalist Bethany Dawson said much more eloquently than me in a tweet: “Regardless of your opinions on Caroline Flack, her death was a tragedy and shouldn’t be used as an opportunit…