A good death
BMJPublished 15 January 2000Open access
Richard A. Smith
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The authors need a new approach to death, and the debate of the age on older people has provided a clarion call to break the taboo and take back control of an area which has been medicalised, professionalised, and sanitised to such an extent that it is now alien to most people's daily life.
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