TV chef fights for life after family is killed in blaze
Matt Golinski, who has appeared on Ready, Steady, Cook, is fighting for his life in hospital and his wife and three daughters are believed dead following a horrific house fire on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland yesterday morning.
The chef was taken to Nambour Hospital with burns to 40 per cent of his body and was flown to Brisbane for specialist treatment. He remained in a critical but stable condition yesterday afternoon.
Neighbours woke after hearing screams and explosions and found the badly burnt man in his driveway after trying to rescue his wife, Rachel, and three girls, Starlia, Sage and Willow.
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My heart really goes out to Matt. What a terrible loss to have to endure, I don't know what else to say apart from I wish you all the strength you need to keep going.
I am really disappointed that so many people have had a dig at others for being judgemental about grief and how to deal or not deal with it in this post, whilst being quite judgemental themselves of such opinions some have expressed. A number of people have said things such as "how is it helpful to say....", well you know what? Everyone is entitled to have an opinion and to express it, and having a go at someone for doing so is not helpful. You do NOT know what experiences a person has had to bring them to the opinion they have. Why should someone NOT express that they feel they wouldn't want to go on if they lost their partner and all their children? Where is there a rule that says what we write here has to be helpful? The person who uses their experience of losing one child (sad as this is) to compare to Matt who has lost his whole family in one go has NO IDEA what that would feel like, and no right to judge someone for attempting to imagine and comprehend how Matt is/will feel. The person who has a dig at someone for suggesting it might be unproductive for Matt's family to be browsing catty, hypercritical forums such as this has no idea what the experiences might be of the person behind such a comment, and is thus making judgements themself quite unfairly. Some people need to think outside the square and learn some tolerance of differing opinion. We are not all religious and wired to dish up prayers in the face of every tragedy. Everyone here seems to be joined in horror that such an awful thing could happen to such a good man and his family, but there is no one way to feel sympathy or talk about how we feel about loss and tragedy. It would do some people well to remember this.
Don't want to start a fight on this thread - but I do indeed think there is a place to tell people it isn't helpful to say "I couldn't go on".
I think it is worth mentioning, because maybe people don't realise it isn't a good thing to say...
You might think that my advice is not a helpful thing to say in itself, but I think it is, because
1. It might help other people who were going to say this to people experiencing a tragedy, NOT to say it
and
2. It will show those people who are experiencing a tragedy themselves right now that there ARE things worth living for, and you don't need to think that way. However horrible things are, there is the possibility in the future that good things might happen to you, so don't give up.
p.s. in case you think this is religion-related, I am not at all religious, and don't intend this post to have any religious overtones.
The thing is though, just because someone says something like "I don't think I'd like to go on", it doesn't mean they would say it someone's face during a time of suffering. Just the same as any opinion expressed on this site. It is not fair to assume they would. The truth is that many people feel a sense of "wow, i don't know how I would ever get on with life if that happened to me" because the truth is that many people who witness or go through tragedies like this never do get over it. So why should we be afraid to talk about?