This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Daniel Joseph Coorey who was born in Australia on May 08, 1986 and passed away on October 19, 2006 at the age of 20. We will remember him forever.
 

My sweet Handsome precious son Daniel how do I stop missing you...I count down the days until I see your sweet face again.....Just wish I could hug and kiss you just one more time.....I am missing you angel more than my words could ever say and I just wish things could be different.....Wishing you all the peace and serenity you deserve for a such a perfect son who I was always so proud of.....No matter what we went through together....My love for you was unconditional and still is......

Will be loving and missing you forever sweetheart...Stay close by me and look after me Dan because I need that so much......

Love your so so sad mum... Wishing forever that you could be here with me....xoxox

Daniel how can I begin to tell you this would be the perfect party for your 22nd Birthday....You and all your loving family together again...This I could only wish for...I could only begin to imagine how this would be.....I want so much for you to be here with us all.....I miss you so much my Precious son Daniel and I wish I could just wrap my arms around you just one more time and let you know how much I love and miss you....I wish you so much happiness for your 22nd birthday...Knowing you will be spending it with all your angel mates in heaven....It breaks my heart when I think I will never be able to hug you and kiss you or see your sweet handsome face again.....So all I can say my son is that I will be sending all my love and lots of hugs and kisses to heaven just for you....Please stay close by me Dan, cause I'm going to need you so much.....Love your Mum Forever xoxo

 To share your 22nd Birthday with us All.  Happy Birthday to my Sweet Handsome Angel Son.  I will be loving and missing you forever.

 







































Daniel my sweet son how i miss you as the 2nd Christmas without you approaches and your not here to share it with us....Daniel Just wanting you to know how much i wish I could spend Christmas with you...But in my heart i know you will be sharing it with me and the rest of your family in a very special way.  Loving you and missing you so much with the lead up to Christmas.  I havent much time left Dan but one thing i really need to do is to put the Christmas tree up for you this year because i know how much you loved everything about Christmas and getting together with everyone that was special in your life...I remember how we used to drive around streets just to see the Christmas lights and how much you loved them.   Daniel you will be missed so much
Loving you always Sweet Daniel  Your Forever missing you Mum xoox



Daniel I will be loving and missing you this Christmas and all the Christmas's to come...


























































































 So to you my Darling son Daniel who I miss more than words could ever say...Merry Christmas to you angel and know that I will be thinking of you now and always and wishing with every beat of my heart that i could just reach out and touch you.....How does a mum get used to not having her son around.  I suppose i just try to do the best I can and hopefully i will get through One Day At Time..

Sending all my love and Hugs to heaven for you Daniel my son whom i miss so very much...

Loving you always and forever
Mum xoxox

































TO MY SWEET SON DANIEL

My darling Sweet Son Daniel here I am 12 months after the day my whole world fell apart, the day i lost you to suicide from a mental illness.   Oh how i miss you my sweet angel.  I have so many happy memories of you Dan, memories that will stay in my heart forever.  I guess Dan when you left me a big part of me went with you and I feel so lost and sad inside.  I wish with all my heart and soul that I could bring you back somehow.  I really don't know how to get used to the fact that you're not around no more.  I think about you day and night and wish that I could see you once more, to be able to hold you and hug you, kiss you and tell you how much I love you.  Dan you were such a big part of me.  You were my only child.  I loved you and cared for you with all my heart and if I had to do it all over again I would.  Never in my wildest dreams was I to bury you before me.  I so hope you are in a place that is peaceful.  Somewhere with God looking after and protecting you.  I hope you found the peace you fought so hard to find when you were alive.  I wish that so much for you my Son.  So many people were shocked by your death and miss you so much.  All that knew you saw your kind heart, considerate and compassionate nature.  I remember reading what you had written about  "YOU WOULD BE A FACE THAT WOULD JUST FADE AWAY,  THAT YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR YOUR COUNTRY."
I really hope you are looking down and can see how many lives were touched by you and that love and miss you so very much.  Dan you put me through some really tough times and took me out of my safety zone.  Your taught me a few things as well.  But this is the most difficult situation I've ever been in.  "Thanks Dan".  I smile and think if I can get through this with you, God and support then I can get through anything.  Sometimes it seems like a dream you not being here.  But I know that I am awake and here you are not.  Thanks for all the great times we spent together.  I will treasure the memories for the rest of my life, untill I meet up with you on the other side.  Even though your not here Daniel I want you to know I'll be loving and missing you forever.  
I Love you Daniel 
Mum xoxoxo









Thanks to all the beautiful graphics ladies who helped me to make Dan's site special for his 1st angel date.



Thank you so much Dianne for Daniels 1st Anniversary Poem










































































































































































































































































































































































































Daniel on your 21st Bdy,  8 May 2007 I just wanted to say my very handsome angel Happy Heavenly Birthday to you.  Im sending hugs and kisses up to heaven just for you.  Thinking about the memories of the most precious times we spent together.  We went through some really tough times and you took me out of my safety zone.  You took me on a journey and I learnt so much from you.  The greatest thing you taught me was unconditional love. No matter what we went through together, I always loved you and will continue to as Long as I live.  I must admit this is my most difficult journey yet.  "Thanks Dan" you loved to keep me challanged.  I smile and think to myself if I can get through this with you, God and support from others, I can get through anything.  And I will.  For you my Son. I know you would want that for me.  Sometimes it seems like a dream you not being here, but I know that I am awake and here you are not.  Just wanted to thank you for introducing me to your friends, for playing scrabble with me, watching TV and DVDS.  Thanks for helping me around the house. Thanks for letting me watch you grow up.  Thank you for showing me your special place on the rocks.  Most of all Dan I want to thank you Angel for making me a stronger person and thanks for letting me be part of your life.  Thanks for the special times we used to talk and laugh and listen to music.  These things meant the world to me.  Thanks for telling me you love me, kissing and hugging me.  Thanks for saying "Its so good to see you Mum"  These are the things I miss Daniel and meant the most to me.  Just wish I could be with you for your 21st, but even though I cant be you will always be with me in my heart.  Hope you have the best time Daniel with all your angel friends.  I wish you peace and happiness now and always and just want to tell you, even though you're not here, I'll be loving and missing you forever.
Love Always your Mum xxx









































To all the wonderful graphic ladies thank you for helping me make Daniel's site so special.  To you all I thank you so much....






Daniel Easter 2007 is nearly here and I just wanted to say wish you were going to be here to share it with us, your family.  You will be so missed by all.  Easter just won't be the same without you sweet boy.  Even though you're not here you will be thought about every minute of the day.  Our first Easter without you.  I hope you have a happy heavenly Easter with God and all the other angels.  I remember all the other Easter's we have had and I know you loved being with all of us.  I remember all the fun you had with Me and Glenn, Giddy and Tata and all your uncle's and aunties and cousins.  Just wont be the same Dan.  I remember you loved cadbury dairy milk eggs Dan and I will still buy them for you my sweet boy and Glenn and I will eat them in your memory.  Hope this brings a smile to your face.  I love you Dan, Keep flying high with the angels and know you are always in my heart. Love Mum xxx    Missing you always.  Gone but not forgotten.
























Thanks so much Dianne for the poem from Daniel






Up until October 19th 2006, suicide was something that happened to a friend of a friend or it was something we had seen on TV, but now suicide is a part of all of us who knew Daniel Joseph Coorey.






We are here for each other as a circle of family and friends and this website is to share our memories and support each other in our sorrow of losing a son, friend, grandson, cousin and nephew.








If we could have a life time wish
A dream that would come true
                         We would pray to God with all our                         
Hearts for yesterday and you.

A thousand words can't bring you back
we know because we've tried
Neither will a thousand tears
We know because we've cried

You left behind our broken hearts
And happy memories too
But we never wanted memories
We only wanted you

Author Unknown







Daniel meant the world to me.  He was such a happy, kind considerate sensitive, fun loving son.  He loved all of his family and had heaps of friends.  When he was 15 he got into smoking pot and it gradually turned him into a different person.  At the time I thought it was all a part of growing up, and that he would get through it.
Daniel ended up with a drug induced psychosis that eventually took over his life and took him away from all that loved him dearly.  I watched my son go through so much pain and suffering.  It broke my heart that I could do nothing about it.  He would get so angry at me sometimes when I mentioned his illness and he kept telling me he was ok.
When he was 17 he told me he was hearing voices.  I didn't understand what this meant at the time as I had no experience with this before.

I found out everything I could about his illness and tried to help him the best I could.  Daniel went into a Mental health unit for about three weeks.  Here the doctors put him on medication to try to help him.  After the three weeks my son told the doctors that the voices had gone and that he was OK.  They let him come home with me and just told him to take his medication.  He didnt like taking the medication and he would stop and start it.  He told me the medication makes him feel weird and that he feels better without it.  I got so scared for him because I could see him changing, to a boy who could see no way out of the torment he was going through.
I so wished the doctors had done a little more to help him and maybe try to help him so much more than they did.  I don't think there is enough education out there to help people just like my son......He felt like society judged him and I believe this was because of his illness and the fact people find it really hard to understand.  Daniel ended up heading up to the Sunshine coast in Qld with a couple of mates.  He wanted to improve his chances of a really great job and opportunities to do something different.  To experience a new place and meet new friends.  Maybe even meet himself a nice girlfriend & to experience just being out on his own.




I missed him like crazy when he left but I used to call him all the time and go up to visit him every chance I got.  He meant the absolute world to me and I would've done anything for him.  You see Daniel was my only child.  We always had so much fun together and now it's so hard to believe he's gone.  I remember we used to go to an Irish pub called O'Malley's.  He was always so proud to introduce me to his friends and I was so proud he was my son.  We used to go down the beach and sit on the rocks just watching the waves crashing all around us and it was so surreal.  Dan had told me this was his favourite spot and he would often just come down by himself and sit there and watch the waves crash all around him. 



Dans illness started to get worse to the point where he couldnt hold down a job, and he never had much money most of the time.  Daniel said to me he wanted to come back and live with me for a while.  I was soo happy that I had my son back and now I could start to look after him and maybe even help him to get better.  But it wasnt to be.  I believe Dan planned to take his life but he needed to be near me and the rest of his family first.  Daniel was home for about 3 months before he died.  I remember I used to worry about him so much and I always used to worry that he would end up hurting himself.  I think I drove myself insane with worry with not really understanding what was going on myself.  I would never be able to go to sleep before his bedroom light had gone off.  I always used to be thinking whats he doing, is he ok.  Maybe I did know something but I didnt know exactly what at the time.



The week he died, Daniel had just started doing a TAFE course in IT.  He came home after the first day and was the happiest I'd seen him in a long time.  This was Daniel's dream to be a computer programmer and finally he was doing something towards what he really wanted to do.  I was so proud of him for giving it a go and maybe I thought he was finally starting to get better.  Daniel gave up smoking 6 months before he died in the hope of getting rid of the voices, demons and delusions that controlled his life.  But it was too late.  The night before he died he seemed so happy to everyone including myself.  We'd been over at his uncle Davids place and Dan had been doing weights with him and playing with his cousins.  We'd come home and I made tea for us.  We talked and everything seemed normal.  After tea, Dan said to me he was going to listen to tunes in his room.  A very normal thing for him to do because he loved music.  He used it to help keep the voices out of his head.  I went and watched TV for a while and before I went to bed, I went into Dan's room to say goodnite to him.  I dont know why but I think it was meant to be.  I put my hands on his face and told him that I loved him so much and I was so proud of him.  He said he knows I love him and that he loved me too.  I remember I had tears in my eyes at the time.  He gave me the biggest hug.  I said to him that I would see him tomorrow and I just went to bed.  I woke up at 5am that morning and could not go back to sleep.  I stayed in bed for a while then got up and got dressed for work.  Daniels alarm started going off and it kept going.  I was wondering why he wouldnt turn it off.  I stood outside his bedroom door thinking something was wrong.  I opened his door to discover his bed hadnt been slept in.  I started to get really worried cause it wasnt like him not to be there.  I ended up finding a suicide note that he had written telling me and his friends and family that he had to go be with God.  He wished us all peace.  At this time it wasnt real.  I still didnt know what had happened.  I ended up taking the note I found to the lady across the road.  Thank God she was there.
She worked up at the hospital and knew me and Daniel.  She asked me if i had checked the garage.  I wasnt even thinking along these lines.  I just wanted to find my son.  It was a nightmare not knowing and I was so hysterical at the time.  All I kept thinking was, no this cant be happening to me.  Dan wouldnt do this.  It all seemed like a bad dream.  As I was walking down the driveway to the garage, I looked over and there I saw my darling son Daniel.  He had hanged himself at the back of my house and there was nothing I could do to bring my son back..  
There are no words to describe the way I felt at that moment, and still do today.  I miss my sweet boy soo much.  And to this day, it seems like a nightmare except its real. 





I promise I won't cry forever
But I need to just today.
I promise I will remember
How to live and how to play.

I promise that I'll dry my tears
When the heartache goes away.
I promise that it won't take years
But I need another day.

I promise that I'll live my life
As you would want me to.
I promise when I'm facing strife
I'll face it straight and true.

I promise I will endeavor
To do the best I can each day.
I promise I won't cry forever
But I need to just today. 














I believe that knowing the sort of person Daniel was and how much he was loved by everybody, he didn't take his life.  His illness did.  I believe he felt so overwhelmed in his situation and suffered extreme mental anguish and a painful sense of hopelessness, He literally wanted to kill the pain not himself.  I couldn't even imagine the horrible mental torture he endured.




Daniel thank you sweet boy for giving me the last 3 months of your life to be with you, to love you and to try and help you.  I have so many memories and these will stay in my heart always and no-one can ever take them away.  I want you sweet angel to know that Im still so proud that your my son and will always love you until that day when i will take your hand in mine and see your sweet face again.  I wish you happiness  in heaven.  May you sleep peacefully with God and all the other angels.

I Love you sooo much and miss you more than I could ever imagine.

Love Always Mum xxx





I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME

Confusion reigns within my heart
Within my soul
Because I know I cannot ever be
The woman I once was.

How can I be complete and whole
When part of me is gone....
A special part...a precious part
The part that was my son.

Conceived in love how gratefully
You were born to me...filled with pride
A bit of my heart, a bit of my soul
Went with you when you died.

One cannot lose a child to death
And still remain the same,
Untouched by tears of emptiness,
Undaunted by the pain.

The cruelest nightmares come to pass
Life's bitterest pill to swallow
In light of this, I can endure
All else that's yet to follow.

There's nothing that can fill
the empty spaces that remain
I've tried and failed so many times
I cannot try again.

No trying to regain the past
That's all a bitter sham
It's time that I resign myself
To being who I am

To be the woman I've become
(No acting out a part).....
A mother with a shattered dream
And a broken heart. 























                                                         
                                                                


 





















I Am Always With You

When I am gone, release me, let me go.
I have so many things to see and do,
You mustn't tie yourself to me with too many tears,
But be thankful we had so many good years.
I gave you my love and you can only guess
How much you've given me in happiness.
I thank you for the love that you have shown,
But now it's time I traveled on alone.
So grieve for me awhile, if grieve you must,
Then let you grief be comforted by trust.
That it is only for awhile that we must part,
So treasure the memories within your heart.
I won't be far away for life goes on.
And if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you can't see or touch me, I will be near
And if you listen with your heart, you'll hear
All my love around you soft and clear
And then, when you come this way alone,
I'll greet you with a smile and a welcome home. 













Daniel xxx








Thinking of you always










Four months have passed
Since you took your life away
I wish things could be different
I wish you could have stayed.

Wish I could have told you
The things inside my heart
Wish I could have told you
Before we had to part

The things I wish I had said to you
The things I wanted to say
I wish I could've said
Don't ever go away.

I thought you'd be here forever
I thought I'd watch you grow
Now all I have is broken dreams
And I've had to let you go.

My darling son I love you still
I miss all the fun we had
I cant believe I've lost you now
I feel so very sad.

I hope that you are happy
I hope that you are free
I hope you know how much
you really mean to me.

































































Daniel you were the sweetest baby


You were my pride and joy xxx



Such a special little boy.....






































May you rest in peace with the angels sweet boy















"He Only Took My Hand” 

Last night while I was trying to sleep,
My son's voice I did hear,
I opened my eyes and looked around,
But he did not appear.

He said, "Mum, you've got to listen,
You've got to understand,
God didn't take me from you, mum,
He only took my hand.

When I called out in pain that day,
The moment that I died,
He reached down and took my hand,
And pulled me to His side.

He pulled me up and saved me
From the misery and pain.
My body was hurt so badly,
I could never be the same.

My search is really over now,
I've found happiness within,
All the answers to my empty dreams,
And all that might have been.

I love you all and miss you so,
And I'll always be nearby.
My body's gone forever,
But my spirit will never die.

And so, you must all go on now,
And live, and understand.......
God did not take me from you,
He only took my hand."
(Author Unknown)























Daniel as long as I live, you will live as I will keep you in my heart always.  I love you Darling sweet boy more every single day.  No one can take away my precious memories of you.









Daniel my sweet boy.  








Daniel wishing you sweet dreams forever 







Burning for you Daniel always

































Daniel each & every minute of every day












Daniel you have my heart forever until we meet again.


























Daniel Now & Forever