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Letters A living funeral with my friends

We undervalue funerals at our peril

BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r238 (Published 05 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r238
  1. Simon A Wright, retired general practitioner
  1. Manchester, UK
  1. doctorsawright{at}hotmail.com

I hope that Morgan and his friends found their living funerals worthwhile.1 I’m sure they were fun, but funerals they were not.

As I told patients when I was a working general practitioner, and as I tell grieving families now …

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