Today has been a very sad day, as we travelled to Greenwich for the funeral of Sam Hiller, a kind, generous, gentle, funny and unique young man, loved by many.
The ceremony took place inside a packed Chapel of St Peter and St Paul in Greenwich, a striking neoclassical building designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
Sam was a regular poster on the urban75 forums for eleven years, contributing thousands of posts, many of them his trademark terrible jokes.
Such was his popularity amongst the community that the thread announcing his death attracted over 800 comments and so far has been read nearly 30,000 times.
Today’s funeral was sad, beautiful, melancholic, moving, funny and tragic, and the sound of the choir – who Sam used to sing for – was unbelievably moving.
RIP Sam. You touched many, many lives and the world won’t be the same without you.
And Buckfast sales are going to take a dip too.
“Without music, life would be an error” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Related posts:
Greenwich photos, south London
Brixton’s past: New Orleans style funeral procession on Brixton Road
A walk through the Greenwich foot tunnel
Greenwich Comedy Festival: Actionettes at the Silent Disco
Greenwich – Naval College & Market
Millennium Dome to Greenwich walk
Greenwich and the Cutty Sark in the Spring sunshine
Millennium Dome to Greenwich walk (part two)
:o(
miss you sam
xoxoxox