In Loving Memory


  

Robert Thomas Church

(1979 - 2000)

 

Fatal Decisions...A Promising Life Ended

      

This website was designed to be far more than just a memorial site for my son.  Robert lives in my heart and soul everyday.  I don't need a website to remind me of this special young man who was loved by all who knew him.

    

Arrive Alive is not just another website about the real dangers of underage drinking, drinking and driving, and alcohol abuse, although the dangers are very real.  Arrive Alive is about decisions and consequences.  Often we don't think about potential consequences until it is to late to change the situation. 

    

The fact that many young people today are living with the belief of being "invincible" is nothing new.  I think all of us felt that way in the early stages of our lives, and our mortality never entered our thoughts.  By human nature almost everyone thinks "bad things only happen to other people...it will never happen to me."  I used to believe that also, until our family became part of that group known as "the other people."

 

Within this website you will find the true stories of many of those "other people."  It is my hope that Robert's story, or another real life story you find here, will cause you to make better personal choices and not meet the same fate many here met.  There are lessons for all of us in these stories, young and old alike.  Please learn from them.  They came at a heavy price.

 

    

This website is dedicated to the memory of all the

"other people."  

  

     Thank you for visiting Arrive Alive!

 

                                                                    Sincerely,

 

                                                                    Jack Church

                                                                    Robert's Father 

 

"Only some of us can learn from

other people's experiences. 

The rest of us have to

be the other people."

(Farmer's Almanac, 2001)

 

 

7 Years

Rest in Peace Son

 

A letter to Robert

September 1, 2007

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Please double-click on the video below and ask yourself "Could this happen to me?"  If you make the wrong choices it very well COULD happen to you, and if it does there is no way to turn back the clock.  Think about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Death by Alcohol

The Sam Spady Story

 

PARENTS:

Get this DVD for your

son or daughter NOW,

especially

before they head off to college!

 

(Click HERE for details)

 

 

 

The Expensive Ride Home

 

What is the average cost of a DUI?

Click on the photo above.

 

                    

 

 

 

 

 

       Fall 2003 DRIVEN cover

        What your kids are not telling you.

 

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Letter from Eric Smallridge

 Prison Inmate convicted on

2 counts of DUI Manslaughter

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