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Beyond goodbye


After their 22-year-old son Josh was killed in a road accident while travelling in Vietnam, devastated parents Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds decided to celebrate his life in a unique and memorable way - planning and delivering his funeral service themselves. Chris Thundow reports.


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t was the first Christmas they had spent without Josh and, though they didn’t know it then, they would never share another. The previous year the whole family had


been in New York; a fairytale winter’s holiday in the city which never sleeps, out among the glittering lights of Times Square and watching the skaters on the ice in Central Park: it had been perfect. But this year, Christmas 2010, Josh Edmonds was


many, many miles away from the rest of his family. While they celebrated together at home in Gloucestershire, dealing with the strange awareness of his absence, 22-year-old Josh was around the other side of the world, exploring South East Asia on the trip of a lifetime. He had gone on his own, an adventure he


had wanted to take for years. He left on hiatus from a promising career as a music producer, having spent years working his way up from an internship at the prestigious dance record label Ministry of Sound. Yet barely two weeks after his family back home in England had seen in the New Year without him, he was dead, killed in a road


Opposite: Josh, Jane and her setpson Joe Main: Josh’


s funeral at the Matara Centre


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