I sometimes wonder at the way of the Australian face with 'death'. That I can rarely see people, whose family or friend has died recently by an accident or a disaster or disease, crying on TV while they are being interviewed might be a good example. This kind of unemotional attitude over the decease of someone you had always been with may raise some suspicious among the public if you live in Asia, at least Korea I can say, whose people tend to become seriously sentimental when they encounter with acquaintance's death. Not only someone you well know but also the one you have ever met or seen before by any chance.
Today I saw 'Glenn McGrath', who is said to be one of the best cricket player over the past decade and whose wife, Jane McGrath, has died from breast cancer 18 months ago, on TV news. It presented a picture in which he and his might-be new girl friend were sitting together in a restaurant, showing genuine smile.
It would have been definitely issued or possibly went to a controversy if it had happened in my country given that his late wife died from such a disease. Having been a husband of a woman who had always tried to be happy with family hiding the agony from a painful cancer and a well known sports star people have been admiring for a long time, appearing, though it was just a picture, with new female friend in a news would not be something people can smoothly admit. At least it was the case to me and I saw the female TV anchor showing an expression that was somewhere between sweetness and bitterness while other male anchor was delivering the news about Glenn McGrath's new fiance.
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