‘I want you to stay I don’t want to be by myself.’
Sudden Death
(Newspaper report quoting Victim Support Support Worker)
So what do you say to the broken hearted? Sometimes you don’t say anything. “I’ve had a situation where I attended the sudden death of a woman. The husband was waiting for the family to arrive from Auckland and I was at the house for probably four hours before they came. He was in shock. There was a time in that four-hour period where for 45 minutes neither of us spoke. I asked him if he was all right. He said ‘I want you to stay I don’t want to be by myself.’ I say to victims ‘you will get through this. It’s going to take time, it’s going to be hard but you will get through this’...”
