A woman who took her own life after a serious injury has explained her decision in a letter published posthumously. Caroline March, 31, injured her spine while riding a horse at a cross-country event in April 2022.
She fractured vertebrae and wrote on her Instagram page in the days afterwards that she had "no feeling to my legs". In a later post, she wrote: "How is it one year since without a doubt the worst day of my life?
I wish I could say it was getting easier but it's not." Despite endless physio, recovery workouts and flying to the US for experimental treatment, her injury, which she suffered at Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market in Norfolk, had stopped her from doing "anything and everything" that she once loved to do.
Her death, on Saturday, was announced in a post to her Facebook page which shared a letter that she wrote, explaining her decision to end her life.
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