The messages on social networks that the singer Sinead O’Connor published 10 days before he died have become a kind of last words in which admirers of the irish singer they try to find meaning in their tragic life. Shane LunnyO’Connor’s suicidal son, appeared as the recipient of those texts.
July 17 O’Connor he wrote four times on Twitter. In the last post, she put a link on Spotify to Great Tibetan compassion mantra, a vocal piece of traditional Tibetan music attributed to Nepali-Tibetan musician Choying Drolma. O’Connor dedicated the piece “to all mothers of suicidal children”. The penultimate message was another link to another song, How can you mend a broken heart (How can you mend a broken heart?), by Al Green. Before, O’Connor played another song twice in a row, No one knows a good thing / You don’t have to cryby Curtis Mayfield. The two pieces are, in short, stories of mourning in the key of music soul seventies
Before that, the most personal message of that day had arrived: “I have lived as a living ghost since … He was the love of my life, the light of my soul,” he wrote. O’Connor. “We were a soul in two halves. He was the only person who loved me unconditionally. I am lost in the bardo without him” [el bardo es un concepto budista para los estados intermedios de la existencia]. The message was headed by the motto #lostmy17yrOldSonToSuicidein2022“I lost my 17 year old son to suicide in 2022“. And it was illustrated with a photo of O’Connor with Shanetheir fourth child, who committed suicide on January 6, 2022.
Shane he had run away a few days before from a medical center in Dublin where he was hospitalized after two previous attempts to suicide. Her mother also used Twitter in those days as a way to try to communicate with Shane. “Shane, your life is precious. God didn’t make your beautiful smile on your beautiful face for nothing. My world would fall apart without you. You are my heart. Please don’t stop beating. Please don’t hurt yourself. Go to the police and we will take you to the hospital,” wrote the Irish woman. Later, O’Connor He published confirmation of his son’s death on the same social network. In July of last year, she was admitted after posting that she planned to follow the path of her son.
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