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EDITOR,--The prospect that the BMJ is even considering abandoning obituaries is too much.1 I am certain that a vast number of readers turn to the obituaries before reading anything else in the journal; this is definitely true among my friends and contemporaries (I graduated in 1991). The obituaries are truly fascinating, and, paradoxically, it is not those of the great and the good that are most interesting but those of the little people-- the expatriate Poles in Ayrshire, the Rotarians in Blackburn, the consultant anaesthetists in Watford, and the Calcutta graduates in Cleveland. Almost as bad as a BMJ without obituaries would be a BMJ with death notices for the many and obituaries for the esteemed few: this would be to miss the point completely.
It is hard to define, but the obituaries give some feeling for the club to which one belongs, a club that is otherwise hard to
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