Alison - Interview 23  

Alison - Interview 23

Age at Interview: 37
Sex: Female
Background: Alison is self-employed. She is single and has 4 children (2 died). Ethnic background/nationality: White British

Brief outline:In 2007 Alison’s husband and two of her young children died in their own home. Alison believes that her husband murdered her children and then set fire to the house. He also died. It has been a terrible time.

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Alison has created pages on a website so that others can share memories, light candles and leave tributes to her children. Other children have also made a garden at school to remember them.

 



I’ve got online memorial sites for them, which I find very helpful, although distressing when people don’t write something on there or light a virtual candle. I think they’re forgetting them. 
 
Is that on a particular site, like ‘Gone too soon’?
 
Yes.
 
Or something like that?
 
They’re on ‘Gone too soon’ but they’re also on ‘Memory of’ dot com. And that’s, that’s nice, you know. My mum and I are the ones mainly who post on there…
 
But every now and then some, for example my friends on their birthdays there’ll be a candle from them. And that means a lot. It is my horror that my kids will be forgotten.
 
Have you got any other memorial? You’ve got the online memorials. Did you have any memorial, at the churchyard?
 
Oh, at the school they, they attend, well, one attended and the other one was due to attend, they asked the kids what they wanted to do and they’ve they decided on the Rainbow Garden. 
 
Oh.
 
So the theme is rainbow, butterflies and sunflowers.
 
And the kids have designed the garden, we’ve raised loads of money for it. And it’s going to be an outdoor teaching area for them. It’s also a, a place for them to go and remember. And the kids do remember. 
 
That’s really nice.
 
You know, whenever I got here they’re all over me. They did a lovely service for them.
 
It was heartbreaking to see the, how much the kids were affected… 
 

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