This site is dedicated to the memory of Sam, Neil and Kazumi Puttick.
It is with great sadness that we share the devastating news about Neil, Kazumi and Sam. Five year old Sam died from meningitis on Friday and it appears that Neil and Kazumi took their own lives shortly after.We are all very shocked at these tragic events but we are all better for knowing them and Sam could not have wished for better parents.
Tragically Sam had suffered a terrible spinal cord injury when he was only 18 months old, which left him unable to move from the neck down. But Neil and Kazumi made sure he lived his life to the full even with such a injury.
Many of you have asked where you can make donations and the friends and family know of no better place than Spinal Research. Spinal Research's aim is to find a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. Please follow the Donate link below to make your gift in loving memory.
Sam, Neil and Kazumi Puttick are much loved and will always be remembered by all their friends and family.
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2 months ago
Anonymous
Lit by a sad mother missing her beautiful boy. I think of Neil, Kazumi and Samuel often and I hope they are at peace together now xoxo
3 years ago
Laura Clout
I covered the story of this family’s death as a journalist and it has stayed with me ever since. I visited Beachy Head today and thought of them all. So much love, but unbearable tragedy - they were always more than another story to me.
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4 years ago
Kerry
RIP, you are not forgotten.
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I remember this,looking back now with the experience I've had bereavement of people close to me since,it just breaks my heart,they were so happy,and it's unbelievable cruel what happened,I imagine the happy family that would have been but for that damned crash,I sincerely hope they are reunited in some better place,I didn't even know them but it makes me cry.
Paul F
9th February 2023
DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
Helen
11th January 2020
It has been 10 years now since we lost you all, but it still hurts like it was yesterday. Missing you. P, M, K and K
Paul Taylor
30th May 2019
