
By Patrick Wood
“I spent the best part of 20 years working in a very unusual environment,” John Merrick says.
By most standards, he’s correct.
The location was Glebe in Sydney. The “unusual environment” was the Institute of Forensic Medicine. Or, as we would call it, the morgue.
Mr Merrick’s job was to provide counselling and support for people whose loved ones had died, many of whom would come in to see the body after sudden and tragic accidents.
