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EDITOR,--The obvious solution to the BMJ's problem regarding space for obituaries1 would be to start an electronic bulletin board. It could accommodate all the obituaries that the journal would wish to print if space was unlimited. Then just a list of recent deaths in the BMJ would suffice, needing less than one page even if the few obituaries of the famous were published. The problem is analogous to that of cemeteries, which take more and more space from the living for the dead. Better to make gardens of remembrance that the living can enjoy.
Eventually it would make sense to join with other organisations that produce or publish medical obituaries--for example, the Royal College of Physicians with Munk's Roll--and put them all on CD-ROM. That would help medical historians to identify cohorts and clusters and uncover trends that we are not aware of. Perhaps the BMJ could approach the Wellcome
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