About ten years ago, my then girlfriends mother was killed in a very bizarre freak accident. She was being unloaded from an ambulance outside a local hospitals A&E department where she was being taken after collapsing at work with severe stomach pains, when a car reversed across the forecourt at high speed and crushed her between it and the ambulance. (The car driver, who was unused to an automatic gear box had select reverse by mistake, and when the car started to move backwards panicked, kicked out in a reflex reaction aiming for the brake and floored the accelerator.)
Now because this happened mid afternoon at a busy hospital, was seen by a large crowd of bystanders, and was such an odd set of circumstances it received a lot of publicity in the local press and even made the inside pages of some of the nationals. This meant a lot of press, radio and TV asking a lot of questions to the family over several months as the inquest and then an NHS internal inquiry took place.
In those interviews and press conferences, and at the inquest and inquiries the family were stoic, at least in public, they were a mess of tears in private, but in public they had evidence to give and stories to tell, so they focused and on the surface appeared very calm.
The charity
Cruse were a great support to us all at the time, and they explained that this was a natural reaction to sudden death in exceptional circumstances. And I think it is sick beyond belief to even claim that this natural reaction to the horrific circumstances that took place at Sandy Hook is in some way fake and is in some way a sign that their bereavement never happened. How does this kind of crap make those who lost loved ones feel? I wonder how the wankers who come up with this bulllshit can sleep at night.
Sorry for the profanities, but this story really does make my blood boil.