Dad struggling with money pressures leaves behind wife, baby son after taking own life: Feels impossible now

A young mom has revealed how her life has been “turned upside down” after the tragic loss of her fiance who recently died by suicide while struggling with cost-of-living pressures.Rachel Keily, 33, said her partner of 7 years, Matt Worrall, lived with mental health challenges.But after silently battling with “financial stress” Worrall took his own life on April 2, 2025, leaving behind his devastated partner and their 15-month-old son Henry.In the months before his sudden death, the 36-year-old service locator had not shown any “signs” that he was unwell, Keily said, explaining that the doting dad was still eating and sleeping and had kept up his routine of going to work and the gym each day.“When he had been unwell in the past, there had been signs, but coming up to this it didn’t mimic that, it didn’t look like that,” the grieving mom-of-one told news.com.au.“He seemed, if anything, a bit stressed about finances because of the cost-of-living, but he told me he was fine, he was still going to work, doing everything as normal.“We’d been talking about the weekend coming up, as we were going to go camping at Easter.But now everything has changed.”The loss of her partner has left Keily to care for son Henry alone as well as the burden of looking after their joint financial responsibilities.She said the salary she earns from her 4-day-a-week admin job isn’t enough to cover the $2,684 mortgage repayment on their Melbourne home, located about an hour north of the city.“I can’t own this house anymore, I cannot afford the mortgage on my own at all, so it’s a huge financial strain,” she shared.“When we moved into the house three years ago, the repayment was $1,560, so it has almost doubled.“Things were tight when there was two of us, it feels impossible now.”According to the latest lending indicators from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the average mortgage size for owner-occupier dwellings is $400,873 as of September 20...