Grief
and Remembering
25 Australians tell it like it is
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Grief That Time Forgot
Allan Kellehear
LOVERS
Chapter 1: Dynamite Jean
Marie Gordon
Chapter 2:
Angie
Denis Williams
Chapter 3:
An Alien Place
Jacqueline Kinsey Bambery
CHILDREN
Chapter 4: Darling Little Frankie
Erica Kurec
Chapter 5:
Forever
Carolyn Foot
Chapter 6:
How Life Changes
Melissa Ryan
PARENTS
Chapter 7: Remembering Pater
Allan Kellehear
Chapter 8:
The Language of the Dead
Mary Fraser
Chapter 9:
The Road to Nowhere
James Carman
Chapter 10:
Hallowed Ground
Neville Millen
Chapter 11:
A Good Death
Raffi Ghazarian
COMMUNITY
Chapter 12: Being Dead is Being Something
David Edler
Chapter 13:
A Shopping Bag from Harrods
Michael Hurley
SIBLINGS
Chapter 14: ‘Pockets’
Sarah McKenzie
Chapter 15:
My Baby Sister Isobell
Matthew Pearce
Chapter 16:
It’s So Unfare
Cheryl-Lee M Charles
Chapter 17:
The Mean of Paul
Megan Denby
Chapter 18:
My Brother
Timothy Baxter
PATIENTS
Chapter 19: The Butter Dish
Sally Greenaway
Chapter 20:
She Smiles
Susan Sawyer
Chapter 21:
Ron’s Story
Robert Benson
FRIENDS
Chapter 22: So Much Unfinished
Tony Magri
Chapter 23:
The Eulogy
Ian Anderson
AND
MORE FRIENDS
Chapter 24: Letter to Lucy
Eithne Mills
Chapter 26:
Pepi
Jeanne Daly
PARTING
WORDS
Chapter 26: Grief: A Part of Life
Julie Edwards
Acknowledgments