"the sendoff he deserves" I just can't get over. I saw that yesterday and it has stuck with me ever since. I mean I'm sorry about Jay but he's not a hero just because of unfortunate decisions he made along with unintended circumstances leading to his sad demise. RIP Jay
I'm so sorry you have to suffer the pain you are going through with your beloved child ,I personally don't have much regard for costly funerals either so I do agree with you on that level but I feel compassion for anyone that feels the need to do that ,prehaps Debbie and some families feel guilt that some how they let their child down in life and don't want to let them down in death I don't envy anyone having to make these decisions and they as a family have been judged enough in the past few weeks .I think msm should stop reporting it now and allow the family privacy tbh
He was going the wrong way?RIP Jay
Location / area where Jay has been found:
28,311673, -16,866717
https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=28.310993~-16.859379&lvl=15.0&style=h#
It's The Mirror, but still, it has a map ....
Map shows all Jay Slater's last movements before tragic end in remote valley
Map helps trace the last movements of missing Brit Jay Slater, 19, who was sadly found dead earlier this week. His death comes following a massive search operation in Tenerifewww.mirror.co.uk
He certainly wasn't heading down any supposed directional route to Los Cristianos but it's been mooted that he could see the sea and was headed down to the closest beach, in the hope that he could follow the coast round to LC. He was actually on 'a' correct route to that beach, directionally - a very small, secluded beach which wouldn't have helped him much anyway - but certainly 'the wrong way' from the safety point of view.
We don't know where he thought he was going so I don't think anyone will ever know for sure, sadly it wasn't a safe route to anywhere
I've just looked and the is now at 66.3K, so it seems people still want to help which is their own freewill I suppose and perhaps they have no real understanding that there is more than enough money to repatriate and have a decent funeral. I understand his Mum wants a special send off it's her son afterall but at this rate I can't image what on earth they are planning that needs so much money.
so many people don't bother with travel insurance and then rely on a Go Fund Me if stuck. I always check insurance for repatriation Dead or Alive.
So sorry to read be having to face . I lost my only child,my adult son ( I do wish DD would stop calling him her baby) many years ago now .
www.independent.co.uk
An absolute essential imo . Well done you.
I totally agree. As far as honouring one's child goes, if, heaven forbid, I were ever to lose one of my beloved adult children, I can only think (and perhaps things change when it happens but I can't see it) that *I* would want to be the one doing the honouring. I know I would want to provide the opportunity for their friends to do likewise but privately, with no brouhaha and if it sent me into debt, well so be it. And if I couldn't afford to go into debt, my children and their friends would understand. That's honour. The idea of someone else paying for my child's funeral just isn't palatable to me. And asking for money on a public site... to me, there's no honour there. I could never see that money as having been given to *me*. I see it as having been given for a cause - and that cause has been and is being, in the repatriation, fulfilled. The rest belongs to similar causes, to ease others' suffering. But I suppose, each to their own.I agree, it's a democracy and people are not being forced to donate.
As DD has said "We would like to thank LBT Global for their support during this impossible time." so I would hope that, them being a charity, some of the money might go back to them?
What is the GoFundMe money being used for after Jay Slater’s body was found?
Jay Slater’s mother Debbie wants to give her boy the ‘send-off he deserves’ in heartbreaking update
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