He is irreplaceable, and for his many friends and admirers there will be a tremendous sense of private as well as public bereavement.
But what was supposed to have been an orderly court proceeding devolved several times into raw, public bereavement as Jewish survivors offered searing memories of their ordeal and representatives of non-Jewish survivors talked of their own pains, staking their separate claims to the settlement fund.
Ms Fernández may now choose to do so, but the wave of public sympathy her bereavement has prompted is unlikely to last.
At first, it appeared that they might be treated leniently, but in the end, public displays of bereavement by the families of the deceased and aggressive prosecution by a politician named Callixenus swung the opinion of the assembly; the six generals were tried as a group and executed.
Didion's candour about these things was welcome, for in bereavement the public and private struggle to be reconciled: between mourning as public fact and mourning as private experience lies a gulf that Didion, as a writer, was able to navigate.
He was 66. Six months later, on 26 August, Kate suffered another bereavement, less public, but just as bitter: at the age of 48, her mother, Mell, a book illustrator and Rothko's second wife, had dropped down dead as Kate's brother, Christopher, watched cartoons in the next room.
A three-tiered public health model of bereavement support articulated by Aoun, Breen, O'Connor, Rumbold, and Nordstrom [ 27] aligns intervention with need and is congruent with bereavement standards and policies.
But in this week's Scrubbing Up Prof Mayur Lakhani, chair of the Dying Matters Coalition which aims to change public attitudes towards death, dying and bereavement, says most people would prefer to die at home - and that major changes are needed to allow people the death they want.
"My work is concerned with bereavement: the tension between public and private grief, social customs and material culture of mourning, and objects as repositories of memory which both retain and transmit meaning," she says.
Dying, death and bereavement are increasingly being recognised as public health issues [ 35- 37] and the need for the 'normalisation' of death has been recognised [ 37, 38] by policy makers.
He copulated after watching public hangings, a favorite pastime, and after personal bereavements.
