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@Mickie_Cricket
Hi
There was a discussion earlier last week, people wanted to send flowers & cards. I will get the correct address from Josh's dad for those who do wish to do so and post it here.
In lieu of flowers I had thought Josh might have preferred that money was not spent on something so perishable and they was a talk of donating money to a suitable charity.
I have been thinking about this and while a mental health/drug charity might be apt I want to avoid this being Josh's prevailing legacy. Not that people should shy away and avoid confronting these issues but there was more to Josh. I think a lot of times he feared being stigmatised as being abnormal when in fact he was just different I guess, as different as everyone as is to other individuals.
Josh had haboured ambitions of becoming a paramedic, in particular a cycle respondant. I think partially in tribute to his dad a GP who was the only authrotiy figure I ever saw him revere. And also because Josh was a pretty helpful dude, who believed in society, caring for others, he was a true altruist (in between his daliances with nihilism and an obsession with dub). I think he also liked the idea of never been confined to the indoors and being able to pursue his passion of cycling while still getting paid. I'm certain if he hadn't been derailed by his issues he would have made and how bugged out would the spotted thread have been. "I just saw Josh at an RTA, he was humming BDP whilst attending to a victim"
Whilst there are no bike specific paramedic charities I thought that it would be nice if those that wanted an alternative to flowers could donate to St John's Ambulance via this just giving page:
https://www.justgiving.com/JoshuaAmesbury
I will send Josh's dad a link to the page. I will also get in contact with St John's and ask them to ring fence the value donated to cycle training, bikes etc (thanks for the idea).
I was also going to send Josh's dad some excerpts from this thread. Just to let him know juat how much Josh meant to a lot of people.