Jonathan came home from work one day with a stomach ache and woke up the next morning with septicaemia. Then followed forty three days on life support. Jonathan died on 28 May 1999, three weeks after his 43rd birthday. He was on immunosuppressant drugs because of a lifelong auto immune illness. He contracted Group Y meningococcal disease - less than 1% of cases in the UK that year. We had been married for nineteen years and our daughters were 11 and 14 years old. Jonathan was a science graduate of Cambridge University and an FCA. He ran his own managment consultancy business and was busy in family and community life. Jonathan was the most kind man: unselfish, hard working and full of integrity, funny, and brimming with vitality. None of these words do justice to how much he gave to the world or describe how much we loved him. If you can, please donate to the Meningitis Trust for their work. Also, please look at the Meningitis Trust website and learn about the signs and symptoms of septicaemia and meningitis so that people you love can be spared from suffering.