When they realized their son was struggling, Jordana Ash and Oliver Lignell dropped everything to fly from Colorado to Seattle, where they helped him connect with a psychiatrist and asked the hard questions.
Everyone had taken the right steps, including their son Maddy Lignell, when he asked for help. After 26 years of observing their son, Ash knew his mannerisms, and is sure he wasn’t lying when he told the psychiatrist he didn’t have a plan to die by suicide.
And yet, less than 24 hours before he was scheduled for an evaluation and six days after a Mother’s Day call where he didn’t seem quite himself, their “goofy,” compassionate, outdoorsy and endlessly curious Maddy was gone…