After the worst has happened Richard Gosling
- Bib ID:
- 10034874
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gosling, Richard, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria
- Description:
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- Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country, South Melbourne, Vic Affirm Press 2024
- ©2024
- 1 online resource illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 8.4MB
- ISBN:
- 9781923046894
- Summary:
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When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families after the worst has happened. After the Worst Has Happened lifts the curtain on a world we all try to avoid but must pass through. It shows the lighter side of death amid all its other facets, as Richard steers families through heartbreak, anger and grief.-- publisher.
When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families after the worst has happened. Aged 40, Richard left his job in the public service and started preparing coffins, driving hearses, assisting in the mortuary and bringing in the deceased from hospitals and nursing homes, slowly working his way up to become operations manager of a venerable Sydney funeral home. After the Worst Has Happened lifts the curtain on a world we all try to avoid but must pass through. It shows the lighter side of death amid all its other facets, as Richard steers families through heartbreak, anger and grief while holding space for love and acceptance. Ultimately, it's about how extraordinarily beautiful it can be to spend a daily life surrounded by our final rite of passage--
- Full contents:
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- Monday morning
- Wet socks
- First interview
- Toes
- A lasting mark
- First funeral
- Early days
- Chris
- Darkness
- Faith
- Odette
- A little death
- Teaching florists
- Meetings
- Things said towards the end
- Books
- Covid
- Evening rosary
- Contemporary flowers
- The last train
- The date and the time
- The box
- The urn
- Two funerals and two weddings
- My funeral
- Two letters
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
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- Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death--cover.
- General.
- Subject:
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- Gosling, Richard, (Funeral director)
- Gosling, Richard
- Autobiographies
- Death
- Death care industry -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Funeral homes -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Undertakers and undertaking -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Undertakers and undertaking -- Australia -- Biography
- Undertakers and undertaking -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Biography: general
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- Coping with grief/loss (Australia)
- Sociology: death (Australia)
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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