By Inside Edition 
An Ohio mother whose husband died
after a reported heroin overdose has shared a photograph showing her beside his
open casket to highlight the realities of drug abuse.
In the image shared to her Facebook
page, Eva Holland smiles alongside her 26-year-old husband Mike Settles and
their two young children.
In a post accompanying the image, the Cincinnati mom explained
that she was sharing the image because she wants to show the reality of
addiction, and how his death was preventable.
I'm sure this photo makes a lot of
people uncomfortable it may even piss a few people off but the main reason I
took it...
“Hiding the facts is only going to
keep this epidemic going,” she wrote. “The cold hard truth is heroin kills. You
may think it will never happen to you but guess what that's what Mike thought
too.”
In her post, she explained how Mike,
her partner of 11 years, lost his life after a recent relapse.
“I was there before it all
started," she said. "I knew what he wanted out of this life, all his
hopes and dreams. He never would've imagined his life would turn out this way.
He was once so happy and full of life. He was a great son, brother, friend but
most importantly, he was a great dad. He loved those kids more than anything."
.
She went on: "But as we all
know sometimes life gets tough and we make some wrong choices. His addiction
started off with pain pills then inevitably heroin.”
She said that he went to rehab at
the end of last year, but ultimately relapsed.
“My kids’ father, the man I loved
since I was a kid, a great person lost his battle,” she said. “I just needed to share his story in case it
can help anyone else.”
Since Eva posted the photo, it has
been shared more than 250,000 times. Many viewers have commended her bravery in
sharing the image.
In a later post, she added that she
had spoken to Mike’s parents about posting the photo. They told her they weren’t
upset that she had shared it, but wanted to note that the coroner’s report has
not yet come back with his official cause of death.
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