As part of my counselling training I did considerable research
on grief and bereavement for my thesis. Some of the material
I read was entirely academic, explaining the feelings of grief,
and the tasks of grieving; others had a more human touch
and were a celebration of the deceased. When I wrote my
thesis I combined the two, but it still had a largely academic
bias, and would have been of limited help to those suffering
loss. This account is neither of these two approaches. It is not
about Cathal. It is about our experience of losing him. It is
about the brutality of sudden death. It is not embellished in
any way, and it is not an exercise in self-pity.
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