This is so heart-wrenching and sad. I draw too and this is her self-portrait and a great job of pencil drawing by Laura. Such talent is inborn and from this portrait, which was a few years ago, Laura already is showing signs of melancholy and emotional pain deep in her soul.

Alas, if I had known her then and now, I would encourage her to get professional help and meantime, walk with her every step of the way if I can, as years ago, when I was much younger like her age, I too have trapped feelings and unfulfilled aspirations too, as every creative and artistic personality has this heavy yoke to carry.

Rest in peace Laura and hope you have found release from the torment you must surely have been battling with till the last moment of your soulful and eventful life, though we all would have wished you are still here with us, sharing the joys and pains of living in this world, knowing it is after all a transient sojourn before we arrive at a much better place in paradise.