TINY CHANGES TO EARTH
The nightmare began with two tweets, sent 19 minutes apart, on May 8, 2018.
“Be so good to everyone you love,” Scott Hutchison, frontman of Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit, wrote in his first Twitter post. “It’s not a given. I’m so annoyed that it’s not. I didn’t live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones.”
Then the second. “I’m away now. Thanks.”
Two days later, authorities would identify the body of Scott washed ashore at Port Edgar near where he was staying in South Queensferry in Scotland. Statements were issued to confirm that the songwriter who had dealt so viscerally and vulnerably with his own mental health issues through music had committed suicide.
“I obviously saw firsthand Scott’s depression—how he dealt with it and struggled with it. There was a part of me that kind of knew that this was how I would say goodbye to him, you know? But nothing can really prepare you for that happening. One thing I now have is the experience to convey to other people that that option, when you think you’re helping the people you’re leaving behind, that’s not the case,” says Scott’s brother and band-mate, Grant Hutchison. “I know that’s something Scott felt. Everyone saw what he tweeted before he did it. It’s not a secret. The one thing if we could go back and say, ‘No, you’re not a burden. You’re loved and I feel loved
