{"id":463956,"date":"2022-06-16T21:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nursing-home-aide-taylor-waterston-committed-suicide\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T21:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:30:36","slug":"nursing-home-aide-taylor-waterston-committed-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nursing-home-aide-taylor-waterston-committed-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nursing home aide Taylor Waterston committed suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f9bedb291f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f9bedb291f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nursing-home-aide-taylor-waterston-committed-suicide\/#%E2%80%9CNursing_home_aide_Taylor_Waterston_committed_suicide%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Nursing home aide Taylor Waterston committed suicide&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNursing_home_aide_Taylor_Waterston_committed_suicide%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Nursing home aide Taylor Waterston committed suicide&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>The parents of a young nursing home aide from Scotland who took her own life last winter have said Thursday that their daughter was driven to suicide in part by the trauma of having to wash countless dead bodies at work.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Waterston, 22, had been employed at Fullerton Care Home in Irvine and Shalom Care Home in Dreghorn, Scotland, where her difficult responsibilities contributed to the mental health issues that led to her death, her grieving parents said in an interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Andi McCleave (right), Taylor Waterston\u2019s father, said her daughter was witnessing at two nursing home resident deaths a week.\" class=\"wp-image-22688917\" width=\"279\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=555 558w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=416 418w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=277 279w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=139 139w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\"\/><figcaption>Andi McCleave (right), Waterston\u2019s father, said she was seeing at least two nursing home resident deaths a week.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Family Handout<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne day she asked if I knew how many dead bodies she\u2019d washed,\u201d her mom, Lana McCleave, told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/scots-teen-care-homes-bodies-27243976\">news outlet Daily Record<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019d lost count. I couldn\u2019t believe it when she said it. She was just a young girl and was having to do it regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waterston had worked at nursing homes from the time she was 17, including during the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken a particularly heavy toll on the elderly population and those living in senior care facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents said that seeing residents whom she was close to pass away on a regular basis was difficult for her to bear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe couldn\u2019t dissociate from it,\u201d said her father, Andi McCleave. \u201cShe told me it was one or two people a week that she was looking after that she was losing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only other line of work that would h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en in at that age would be a soldier in a war zone. What sort of effect did that have on the mental health of the carers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waterston had sought professional help for her mental health struggles and was prescribed medication, but she did not get better.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, she quit her job and isolated herself from friends and family, before taking her own life on Dec. 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Since their daughter\u2019s death, Andi and Lana have thrown themselves into raising funds for charities that offer counseling to bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard enough for us to get out of bed in the morning, but we want to dedicate as much time as we can to this and raising awareness,\u201d Andi told the outlet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Taylor Waterston first started working in nursing homes when she was 17-years-old.\" class=\"wp-image-22688916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taylor Waterston first started working in nursing homes when she was 17 years old.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> \/ Beautiful Inside &amp; Ou<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-05.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Lana McCleave (right), Taylor Waterston\u2019s mother, said her daughter had lost track of how many dead residents she was cleaning.\" class=\"wp-image-22688918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/woman-wash-dead-bodies-suicide-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Lana McCleave (right), Taylor Waterston\u2019s mother, said her daughter had lost track of how many dead residents she was cleaning.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Family Handout<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling.<\/em><br \/><em>If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24\/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at\u00a01-800-273-8255\u00a0or go to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/\">SuicidePreventionLifeline.org<\/a>.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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