'Don't let this be the end': Good Samaritan behind Lions Gate notes shares her story

Mindi Reynolds hopes the handwritten messages of encouragement will make the reader realize someone cares

Mysterious Good Samaritans have been posting handwritten suicide prevention messages along the railings of the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. CBC's The Early Edition tracked down Mindi Reynolds, the woman behind some of the more recent notes, to hear her story:

Twelve years ago, I lost a friend to suicide.

We had lived in the Interior together, and I had just moved back to Vancouver when I got the call.

I remember just feeling overwhelming amounts of guilt that I couldn't see the signs when I was there, and it's something I still grapple with to this day.

So when I read an article in late July about an 18-year-old girl from the U.K., Paige Hunter, who had been posting notes on the Wearmouth Bridge in England, I couldn't help but be inspired and connect with the story.

I wanted to share the message that there is hope, so that the person reading it realizes that there are people out there who do care, even if they haven't met that person yet.

I've seen some similar messages of encouragement posted on the bridge before. I don't know who wrote them, but they filled me with so much happiness and so much hope...

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