CRY provides cardiac screening for the young and helps families dealing with grief

Marie Greene’s son died suddenly of cardiac arrest aged 15. She talks to Margaret Jennings about how she coped with her grief by setting up a support charity for bereaved parents.

“I KEEP Peter by my side. They laugh at me when I say ‘Oh, I’ll get a parking space outside the station. Don’t worry’. And I always say ‘thanks Peter’, when I do. In that way, I keep him with me and I believe he’s around somehow.”

Marie Greene celebrated her 72nd birthday last month, but there is not a day over the past 21 years that she hasn’t included her son in her life, since he died suddenly of cardiac arrest.