Change for Joe Baker: Ensuring all Families Have Immediate Access to Deceased at Musgrove
Change for Joe Baker: Ensuring all Families Have Immediate Access to Deceased at Musgrove
The Issue
On the tragic morning of November 27, 2023, our beloved son, Joe Baker, was killed in a road traffic accident. Joe was only 20 years old, from Hopton Heath in Shropshire, Joe was travelling to his base where he was serving as an accomplished aircraft engineer in the Royal Navy at Yeovilton, Somerset. Following his untimely death, we, his heartbroken parents, and Family were denied access to our son for an agonising 10 days at the hands of Musgrove Mortuary in Somerset. Despite desperate appeals and pleas for access not only from us, Joes parents but also that from our two liaison officers, Mr Jon Delahaye Royal Navy and Mr Martin Higgins Somerset Police, our requests to be with our boy Joe were continually refused.
Finally on Thursday 7th of December 2023, we held our boy, I kissed his perfect face, held his hands, and told him it was all going to be ok, moms here, I’ve got you son, how I adored every bone in his body.
Apologising again and again for not being there with him from the start, the guilt I felt as a mother is unbearable and something I am still struggling with today.
I should have been stronger, I shouldn’t have listened to anyone, I should have knocked down doors and walls anything to just have been with my boy my Joe.
This is what Musgrove mortuary did to me and my family.
Musgrove mortuary took time away from us and our Joe, that we simply can never get back, I want to make sure that going forward no other families are ever told NO, not only by Musgrove Mortuary but all Mortuaries.
It is in Joe's memory and the unbearable pain we were put through that we initiate this petition. Families shouldn't have to fight for the right to mourn their loved ones appropriately. These deaths are already tragic; they do not need to be made more painful by unnecessary bureaucracy and legalities.
We call on our legislators to enact laws ensuring that families have immediate access to their deceased loved ones. We ask everyone to join us in our cause, ensuring no family has to endure the additional sorrow of being denied a final goodbye.
Please sign this petition and help us affect this much-needed change.
2,836
The Issue
On the tragic morning of November 27, 2023, our beloved son, Joe Baker, was killed in a road traffic accident. Joe was only 20 years old, from Hopton Heath in Shropshire, Joe was travelling to his base where he was serving as an accomplished aircraft engineer in the Royal Navy at Yeovilton, Somerset. Following his untimely death, we, his heartbroken parents, and Family were denied access to our son for an agonising 10 days at the hands of Musgrove Mortuary in Somerset. Despite desperate appeals and pleas for access not only from us, Joes parents but also that from our two liaison officers, Mr Jon Delahaye Royal Navy and Mr Martin Higgins Somerset Police, our requests to be with our boy Joe were continually refused.
Finally on Thursday 7th of December 2023, we held our boy, I kissed his perfect face, held his hands, and told him it was all going to be ok, moms here, I’ve got you son, how I adored every bone in his body.
Apologising again and again for not being there with him from the start, the guilt I felt as a mother is unbearable and something I am still struggling with today.
I should have been stronger, I shouldn’t have listened to anyone, I should have knocked down doors and walls anything to just have been with my boy my Joe.
This is what Musgrove mortuary did to me and my family.
Musgrove mortuary took time away from us and our Joe, that we simply can never get back, I want to make sure that going forward no other families are ever told NO, not only by Musgrove Mortuary but all Mortuaries.
It is in Joe's memory and the unbearable pain we were put through that we initiate this petition. Families shouldn't have to fight for the right to mourn their loved ones appropriately. These deaths are already tragic; they do not need to be made more painful by unnecessary bureaucracy and legalities.
We call on our legislators to enact laws ensuring that families have immediate access to their deceased loved ones. We ask everyone to join us in our cause, ensuring no family has to endure the additional sorrow of being denied a final goodbye.
Please sign this petition and help us affect this much-needed change.
2,836
Supporter Voices
Petition created on 23 October 2024