Parents commit suicide to be with their son who passed on

[Mari333]

Suicide Cliff Jump: Parents 'Devoted' To Son


The victims have been named as Neil Puttick, 34, his Japanese wife Kazumi, 44, and son Samuel, aged five, of Westbury, Wiltshire.

Mr and Mrs Puttick jumped off the cliffs with two rucksacks, one containing Samuel's body and the other carrying toys.

All three bodies were found about 400ft down the notorious suicide spot, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Sunday evening.

The child died on Friday evening after being discharged from hospital, where he had been treated for meningitis.














http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Beachy-Head-Tragedy-Couple-Named-As-Kazumi-And-Neil-Puttick-Son-Was-Samuel-Puttick/Article/200906115293262?f=rss

[Skittles]

1. *sniff*

:cry:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. It all started with a drunk driver.

:cry:

[cabluedem]

11. I hope one day ALL car drivers are tested for drugs as truckers are. Drunk driving is only an easy..

lots of drivers are on dope or meds and should be held accountable for their drugged driving just like truckers.

[NNN0LHI]

27. Wouldn't the drug testing of police and politicians be just as important?

Lets not leave them off the list.

Don

[cabluedem]

33. Sure but with cops we would have to test for Steriods. nt

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[Mari333]

4. well, thats your perspective of course.

but I fully understand their motive. in every way.

[NNN0LHI]

7. Do you encourage this type of behavior to others?

[Mari333]

9. as a mother whose son has passed on

I understand it completely.

[armyowalgreens]

22. As a person suffering from suicidal depression...

I can understand how the pain could be so bad that they wish to die. But I do not understand how they can kill themselves with hope of being with their son again.

There is no logical evidence to support such a claim.

[Orrex]

25. When you're in the deepest throes of depression, are you motivated solely by logic?

[armyowalgreens]

26. Definitely not.

I simply think that if they were acting logically, their logic was faulty.

I will agree with you, however. When I am in a state of depression where I no longer wish to live, I am outside the realm of logic.

[Orrex]

28. Well put

That last sentence is rather stirring, I think.


However, I doubt that the grieving parents would have claimed to be acting out of logic, whatever their stated motivation.

[uppityperson]

35. Best wishes to you

Having a child of my own, and talking with other parents who say that if something happened to their child, they understand it completely also.

But having never having a child die, I can only imagine. And so say best wishes to you

[katandmoon]

5. Actually you don't have a clue whether they will be with him or not.

[liberalmuse]

8. Nice.

Actually, they're dead, and not eating dirt sandwiches. Parents who loved their child like they did don't deserve such a crude epitaph. They were with him up to the end, which seems to be what they wanted.

[Orrex]

12. That's as crude and boorish as anything I've ever read on DU

I'm so confident of my atheism that I don't even talk about God during orgasm, but even I would never shit on somebody's pain like you just did.

What could possibly motivate you to trivialize a family's years of anguish, capped off by a tragic loss sufficient to strip two people of their will to live? Do you feel better about your own atheism now that you've mocked and diminished an entire family's death?

And don't hide behind grand rhetoric about the folly of suicide, because everyone here knows that's not the point.

[patrice]

13. Thanks for advice and the chuckle.

feelin' kind of low myself lately . . .

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. empathy...try it some time...

Don

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Since time is not linear, it is another dimension, the parents ARE together with their

son and would have continued to be with him whether they died today or twenty years from now. However, sometimes grief makes life seem not worth living.

[Mari333]

24. I love that perspective/physics

and often remind myself of the nonlinear reality vs the linear illusion. kudos.

[ashling]

29. OMG thanks

I was thinking about jumping off a cliff until I read your post.

:rofl:

[NNN0LHI]

30. Oh go ahead and do it

Just short cliffs though. About a couple of feet high is all.

Take a pass of the discount bungee jumping though.

:rofl:

Don

[patrice]

32. Re the discount bungee jumping: reincarnation isn't everything it's cracked-up to be, or so I hear,

at least, from the Buddhists I know.

[liberalmuse]

6. Oh my god.

That is the saddest story I've ever read. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Th1onein]

10. Waiting for the first idiot to say, "Couldn't they have had more children?"

n/t

[Orrex]

15. Allow me to share my friend's wisdom on exactly that subject

A few years ago she gave birth to a boy who suffered from Gaucher's disease. I'll spare the details, except to say that it's astonishingly rare and invariably fatal, but not before 18 to 24 months of suffering.

Her little boy received as much love and care as any child could hope, but in the end it was futile, and he died just before his second birthday.


Recently my friend revealed to me that she and her husband are planning to try again, even though they have a 1 in four chance of conceiving another child with Gaucher's. I asked about this, and I told her frankly that I wouldn't have the strength our courage to face that possibility.

"I can live with grief," she said. "I can't live with regret." The regret of not trying again, that is.


I don't question the current family's decision, though I mourn their final decision. I'm just grateful that I've never had to endure anything like that.

[Greyhound]

20. Argh! There are MILLIONS of kids available for adoption all over the world.

I dare not say more.
:grr:

[Orrex]

21. True, but that's not my call to make (nt)

[MadMaddie]

14. The drunk driver essentially ended 3 lives on that crash day!

May this family RIP!

I can't judge these parents, they probably somehow blamed themselves for not being able to protect their child on the day of the crash.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. saaaaaaaaaaaaaad story. The parents could have benefited from grief counseling

[BlueJazz]

18. Being an Atheist, I don't believe in such things as "being with their Son", but

...my heart goes out to any Human being who has to face the lose of their offspring.
The couples pain must have been insurmountable.

At least ...Now...their pain is gone..

[aikoaiko]

23. Even as an athiest, I can understand this.

Its sad, but sometimes there is no way to move on except in the big way.

[DerekG]

31. Very sad, and perfectly understandable

If there's an afterlife, they're with their son; if not, their pain is no more. I'd probably do the same thing.

[Number23]

34. Why is it his "Japanese" wife and not just his wife?

That is ridiculously stupid.