GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY – Jaime Moore, a GW Alumna, was found dead last week in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. after taking her own life. Moore graduated from the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences in May of 2000, with Bachelors in Speech Pathology and Academic Development.
According to an article in the Miami Herald, Moore, 24, took an overdose of prescription pills and crawled into the darkness of the trunk of her car and committed suicide. There were no signs of trauma or forced entry. The Broward Medical Examiner is awaiting the results of her toxicology report.
“Imagine, if you can, this person getting into a confined space like that, seeing nothing,” said Dr. Donna Cohen — a suicide expert and professor of aging and mental health at the University of South Florida — in the Herald article. “Mentally, she had reached total oblivion, total darkness.”
“She was a perfectionist, who was always perfect, she could not accept that,” said her roommate Paige Gunther. “There was a sadness there that no one could alleviate.”
Moore, who was raised in Swampscott, Mass., was a very active and energetic individual. In high school she was the captain of her cheerleading squad and at GW she became interested in speech pathology, working as an assistant speech pathologist at an elementary school. The Herald reported that after graduating in 2000, Moore was offered, but had turned down, a high paying corporate job in Chicago.
“She was a perfect 10, that beautiful and that smart,” said Marc Shuster, a friend and classmate of Moore. “She hid what problems she had inside her from all of us in school.”
It is believed that this was not the first time Moore had attempted suicide. According to friends she had a severe eating disorder and extreme depression.
The Herald reported that Moore left one last note to her roommate that read, “I will be back in a little bit. I did not want to wake you.”
“We are in deep pain, pain to great to describe,” said her father Brian Moore.
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