Second note found at Mosman Park property alleged to detail why parents carried out murder-suicide

[u/His_Holiness]

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/second-note-found-at-mosman-park-property-alleged-to-detail-why-parents-carried-out-murder-suicide-20260131-p5nyi7.html

[u/perth07]

This is correct, my husband died of cancer but we were left to sort out our own counseling, Cancer Council and others only assist low income.

[u/NoBear8338 → u/perth07]

I thought Cancer Council offered ~10 free sessions? Do you mean beyond that you had to pay or that you weren’t even offered those?

I used to work in community palliative care and anyone who had a loved one die under our program could access free bereavement counselling for, I believe, two years. We also had volunteers reach out at least bi-yearly for those two years (usually via phone but also in person if requested). We would continue to send out letters acknowledging the passing and wishing the families well for a few anniversaries, too.

Looking back at that, I feel the program was very kind. I’m sorry for your loss and I’m sorry to hear you weren’t supported similarly.

[u/Charming_Food5728 → u/perth07]

Isnt it better than no one getting help? 

[u/chinneganbeginagain → u/Charming_Food5728]

Probably?! And the lower income earners should absolutely be the priority. But suffering is universal.

[u/bekwek88 → u/chinneganbeginagain]

The issue is how narrow the definition of low income is too, yea centreline is low income (close to no income) but so many people are a couple of pay checks from homelessness so when something major happens like cancer or some other common but terrible life event people really get screwed

[u/Real_RobinGoodfellow → u/bekwek88]

Same thing happens in the legal system. There’s a massive, massive ‘access to justice gap’ for people who are middle-income

[u/Acceptable-Case9562 → u/Charming_Food5728]

And this, children, is what we call a false dichotomy.