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More pages should be given to obituaries
EDITOR,--The BMA is an association of doctors, and the BMJ therefore carries a responsibility to publish the obituaries of its members. This is not the case for the Lancet, which is merely a journal. A list of deaths would be insufficient, for it is the details of the lives and achievements that members wish to read. Equally importantly, the publication of the obituary is an important element of the mourning process for the relatives of many of the people who have died.
Liz Crossan and Richard Smith express concern regarding pressure of space,1 but in each of the issues of 7, 14, and 24 January only two pages were dedicated to obituaries; I would press for the allocation to be doubled. If, for instance, two pages will allow six obituaries (300 a year) then four pages will allow 12 (at least 600 a year), which is well within foreseeable death
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