NEW HAMPSHIRE (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Adam Moser, 27, loved adventure and chose a job on a commercial fishing boat over Wall Street.
But it was his choice to try heroin that ended his life.
“A kid who was well loved and liked, and intelligent, and it killed him,” said his mother, Jeanne Moser.
Adam’s death was one of four in a single weekend in New Hampshire last month. The state is on track to surpass last year’s heroin-related death toll of 320.
Adam’s parents and others are saying enough is enough.
“One and done – that’s my message. This isn’t a weekend joy ride. This kills,” said father Jim Moser.
They wrote a blunt obituary admitting to friends and family that their son “made a bad decision” and warned “there’s no turning back, no do overs. Please stop before you or a loved one thinks that no drug is too powerful.
The Mosers are not the first to do this. They are part of what some are calling a movement calling for more awareness of the dangers of addiction.
The movement was started by Tom Parks. His daughter Molly died last April, and her heartbreaking and very honest obituary went viral.
"She loved to read. She loved theater. She loved old movies. And she loved heroin. At the end, that's what killed her," her obituary read.
“We wanted people to know that people are dying of addiction, heroin addiction namely, and it’s killing a lot of young people,” Parks said.
Buddy Phaneuf, owner of one of the largest funeral and cremation firms in the northeast tells FOX25 that they've responded to over 50 heroin related deaths this year alone.
"Whether it be our online obituary pages or Facebook or Twitter or other avenues to really say, yes, our family member has passed away, it's very sad, but he or she was a heroin abuser," Phaneuf said.
But seeing these brave obituaries doesn't make losing his daughter easier, but it makes her legacy one he can be proud of.
"Every time I see one, it tears a little piece of my heart out," Parks said.
He went on to say, "We have to remove the stigma so that people can get help and somebody does something. Because we are losing a whole generation."
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