Losing Your Spouse in front of the World
March 22, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
My heart goes out to the wife of Bob Woolmer – the manager of the Pakistan cricket team who died in his bedroom. The loss of your husband is incredibly hard at the best of times, but imagine if the police were treating it as suspicious, you were miles away on South Africa and every sports channel is mentioning suicide, murder etc
I think the press forget that there is a family in mourning, a family that is coming to terms with a sudden death and a family in grief. This kind of bereavement reminds me of how Prince William and Harry in the UK have had to cope with the loss of their mother in the spotlight of the press. With all these people I think we should admire their courage and their strength of character that has seen them through – I am not sure I could have done it so well.
