Published 4th Jun 2009
GRIEF can tear us apart, but Terry George has found that it can also bring together thousands of people. The website he founded to help the bereaved pay tribute to their loved ones – www.gonetoosoon.org – is being developed as a social networking site similar to Facebook and Twitter, to help people cope with their loss.
Published 3rd Jun 2009
FRIENDS of an Edgware father killed close to his home have set up a website to pay tribute to his life. Garry Frater, 32, died in the early hours of Saturday when he was hit by a car in De Havilland Road on his way home from a night out with friends in Watford. A Facebook page has been set up in Mr Frater's memory and an online memorial at gonetoosoon.org has also been established.
Published 21st May 2009
FAMILY and friends of a fun-loving 15-year-old said goodbye in a funeral fitting to his quirky character. Holbeach teenager Daniel Hornby died of a lung infection after a battle with a rare form of leukaemia and mum Rachel O'Reilly wanted to put-on a funeral that celebrated his life.
Published 29th Apr 2009
MORE than 1,500 people have joined two Facebook sites set up in memory of teenage car crash victim Jamie Livsey. A GoneTooSoon web page has also been set up in memory of Jamie, featuring messages from his family and friends.
Published 23rd Apr 2009
Miami-Dade health officials said Thursday that they're ''stumped'' in efforts to understand the cause and course of 12 cases of a rare, virulent form of meningitis that has killed four people in South Florida since December.
Published 18th Apr 2009
A Twickenham family are going on a 120-mile bike ride to commemorate the life of their youngest member, who passed away at just eight days old. James Thatcher and his brothers and friends will cycle the entire length of Hadrian’s wall to raise money for the charity for premature babies, Born too Soon.
Published 1st Apr 2009
Sadly, for tragic Dundee tot Brandon Muir there will be no more parties and the only balloons on his grieving dad’s mind will be released at the weekend to mark the toddler’s brief life and traumatic death at the hands of his mother’s partner, Robert Cunningham.
Published 18th Mar 2009
A HEARTBROKEN mother is today searching for answers after her beloved son died suddenly in his sleep - exactly a year after she lost her teenage daughter. The inquest into the death of six-year-old Jacob Gaecke is due to take place at the end of this month and his mother, Vici, is hoping that it will provide her with some of the answers she is seeking.
Published 25th Feb 2009
A TEENAGER who committed suicide has given six people the gift of life by donating her vital organs. Faye Loughrey, 15, killed herself weeks after telling her dad that if she died, she wanted her body parts to be used in transplants.
