'Goodbye, my beautiful girl'

Last month, I watched Australian screenwriter Adam Zwar deliver a eulogy for his writer/director wife, Amanda Brotchie. It was a near perfect piece of writing and speechmaking.

The funeral was on the 5th of January at the St Kilda RSL, and not the St Kilda Bowls Club — which is where I arrived at the published start time. It was a frantic race to the line, but I arrived in time to hear a succession of amazing eulogies from friends, relatives and colleagues of Amanda Brotchie.

She was a startlingly high achiever. A doctorate of…