One day a sad post was put on the clan forum of one of the groups that makes up the Alliance of Dads of Destiny UK PS4 Clans I run, by a fellow clan mate Elofan1963....

Oct 20th 2015 "I'm wondering if you guys can assist me in helping a young man who unfortunately has terminal cancer. Let me explain.

Up until recently I was Head of Year. In 2012 a young man called Luke was found to have a tumour in his arm. This was treated with radio and chemo therapy and all was well for a while. However in 2014 it was discovered that the tumour had spread into his lungs which was again treated with radio and chemo therapy. Luke missed all of his two GCSE years but by the summer of 2015 it appeared all was going as well as expected with the treatments.

However yesterday I received a call from a community nurse telling me that things had taken a turn for the worse. His tumour is back in his arm and also spread to his legs. She also said that this time it was terminal.

Luke is a massive Destiny fan and plays all the time (sound familiar?). I discovered this fact in May when I went to visit him. At that time he was struggling to find a group to Raid with and asked me if I would become a PS4 friend and help him out."

Luke was desperate to complete the Kings Fall Raid, and so once we had the permissions we needed as Luke was still school aged and Elofan is a teacher we organised a number of raids to help me. We never did get to complete The Kings Fall Raid, but I am pleased to say he found a group of people more his own age and got the raid completed, you can see the Kings Fall Emblem in one of the pictures (for those that know what that looks like)

Sadly on Thursday 20th November 2015, Luke passed away. We are raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support as they helped Luke and his family through what must have been an awful time.

On Friday 4th December at 21:00 GMT a group from our clan, who raided with Luke are going to attempt to complete the Kings Fall Raid in his memory. Links to this fund raising page will be made available on Twitter, Bungie.net and Twitch where you will be able to watch us attempt the completion. We are hoping to continue the Stream with help from other DoD Clans for a full 24 hours.

Luke from everyone at Dads of Destiny, it was a pleasure to know you, you are a credit to your parents, and you will be missed by many...

UPDATE - The funeral went as expected - no mother should have to bury her 16 year old son. It was packed and lots of Luke's friends were there. The readings about Luke's life were very touching. The music was mainly thrash metal but we did walk in and out to 'The Last Stand' which is the Taken King Theme. On top of his coffin was his red ps4 controller and a copy of Destiny.