What is a good death?: Death cannot be tamed

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7422.1047-b

BMJ 2003;327:1047 (1 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7422.1047-b

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What is a good death?

Death cannot be tamed

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EDITOR—Tomorrow is not promised to anyone young or old.¹

As Heraclitus said: "Death cannot be tamed. Death is unknown.Death is other. Death is death. When men die there awaits themwhat they neither expect nor even imagine."²

Mary J Curtis, head of education and training

Mount Edgcumbe Hospice, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 6AB Mary.Curtis@Hospice.Cornwall.nhs.uk

Competing interests: None declared.

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