Murphy began referring to himself as a "one-man bereavement team".
Murphy began referring to himself as a "one-man bereavement team". He told the young people that he loved them and to stay in school, because Chicken would have wanted them to.
"What astonishes me about John is that he has suffered so much bereavement in his life and come perilously close to death himself," Newson says.
McBurney, doggedly doing up the wrong buttons on his cardigan, mutters his way through official literature on bereavement, while around him his furniture assumes an eerie animation: Magni twists himself into the shape of a coatstand; Houben becomes a fridge, a radio and a whistling kettle.
Gen Howlett said he had lost his own father, killed in Italy during the war, when he himself was aged just 13, and therefore knew something of bereavement.
Alan himself had just separated from his partner and was showing all the signs of bereavement in his own right.
And bereavement - why the bereavement?
We share his bereavement.
"'Hunter's shot himself.'" To watch Ralph Steadman over the past few years has been to observe a man recovering from the most brutal kind of bereavement.
