Finding out that your friend has a new partner always sparks such excitement, curiosity and affection, and from the moment Mathew told me about his new girlfriend, I had all of those feelings. I was so happy he had finally met someone. But looking back now, I wish more than anything that I’d intervened. Maybe I could’ve saved him. Maybe he would still be here today.
I met Mathew by chance in 2009, after I accidentally added the wrong person on Facebook. I’d been looking for an old friend, yet I ended up making a new one!
We bonded over our similar sense of humour and interest in nature, and within months we had become firm friends.
‘I questioned whether she