Death, come closer
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Doctors overestimate survival [Full text] FREE

	Caring for dying patients is a source of satisfaction and of distress [Full text] FREE

	Bereaved people cope better after euthanasia than natural death [Full text] FREE

	Patients in Uganda prefer to die at home [Full text] FREE

	Facilitating consent for trials in dying patients [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	"The best places to die"
	Peter A Singer, Michael Wolfson
	BMJ  2003;327:173-174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patient centred death
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;327:174-175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reforming the coroner's service
	Christopher M Milroy, Helen L Whitwell
	BMJ  2003;327:175-176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Palliative care needs of minorities
	A Rashid Gatrad, Erica Brown, Hardev Notta, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2003;327:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Helping people bereaved by suicide
	Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin
	BMJ  2003;327:177-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	In search of a good death: Doctors need to know when and how to say die
	Stephen R Workman
	BMJ  2003;327:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Humanising effects of a good death will help society
	Aileen Clarke, Jean Gladwin
	BMJ  2003;327:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.221-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Medical education has important role in extending palliative care
	Mari Lloyd-Williams, Yvonne H Carter
	BMJ  2003;327:221-222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.221-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: A good death is an oxymoron without consideration of mental health
	Holly G Prigerson, Selby C Jacobs, Elizabeth H Bradley, Stanislav V Kasl
	BMJ  2003;327:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.222 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Health professionals' beliefs may undermine effective pain relief for dying patients
	Marina Cuttini, Veronica Casotto, Rodolfo Saracci, Marcello Orzalesi
	BMJ  2003;327:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.222-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Can children with life threatening illness and their families experience a good death?
	Laura Beaune, Christine Newman
	BMJ  2003;327:222-223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.222-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Palliative care is also remit of intensivists
	Asrar Rashid, Margaret Ferguson
	BMJ  2003;327:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.223 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Primary healthcare teams work in new framework for better care of the dying at home
	Keri Thomas
	BMJ  2003;327:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.223-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Good death is social construction
	Mary J Curtis
	BMJ  2003;327:223-224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.223-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: What is a good death?
	June Jones, Derek Willis
	BMJ  2003;327:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.224 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Each encounter with a dying patient is a unique privilege
	Simon Knowles
	BMJ  2003;327:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.224-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Spiritual care is important for a good death
	Barry A Clark
	BMJ  2003;327:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.224-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Spiritual care of dying patients needs to be well prepared
	George El-Nimr, Laura Green, Emad Salib
	BMJ  2003;327:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.224-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: A good death and medicalisation need not be polarised
	Jen L Lapum
	BMJ  2003;327:224-225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.224-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Good death is achievable if task becomes easing death, not prolonging life
	Grant R Gillett
	BMJ  2003;327:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.225 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Human Rights Act 1998 imposes an obligation to facilitate a good death
	Jo Samanta, Ash Samanta
	BMJ  2003;327:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.225-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Law needs to be changed to allow terminally ill people choice of a dignified death
	Lisa Cook
	BMJ  2003;327:225-226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.225-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Do we really know what happens in this country?
	Ramanand M Kalbag
	BMJ  2003;327:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: Both how and when determines a good death
	Anand Deshpande
	BMJ  2003;327:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.226-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In search of a good death: A good death described
	Frankie E Campling
	BMJ  2003;327:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.226-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Intramuscular adrenaline is safe
	Jo A Douglass, Robyn E O'Hehir
	BMJ  2003;327:226-227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.226-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Cause of reactions should be identified
	Daniela Zauli
	BMJ  2003;327:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.227 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Authors' reply
	Sarah L Johnston, Joe Unsworth, Mark M Gompels
	BMJ  2003;327:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.227-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	BMA secretary responds to news story
	Jeremy Strachan
	BMJ  2003;327:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.227-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	NHS staff cheat to hit government targets, MPs say
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;327:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NICE issues new guidelines for patients with heart failure
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.179-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Hospital patients say they are not fully informed about drugs
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;327:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.180-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Freedom from unpleasant symptoms is essential for a good death
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;327:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.180-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Diets high in animal fats increase risk of breast cancer, while painkillers lower risk, studies say
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Unjustified seclusion of psychiatric patients is breach of human rights
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.183-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Star rating system fails to reduce variation
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Attacks on NHS staff increasing, MPs say
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	EU commits $1bn to global fund
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Tattooists use pigments designed as car paint
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Consultants are closer to pay deal after winning concessions
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	EU to ban use of unsubstantiated health claims for food products
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	MRC to fund more trials of complex treatments
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.182-e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Doctor who botched sterilisation has to pay cost of raising child
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;327:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.183 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Genetic test can show whether drugs to treat colon cancer will work
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.183-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Free retroviral drugs could save up to 1.7 million South Africans
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Community pharmacies saved from deregulation plans
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Surgeons accepting incentives from prosthesis makers must register their interests
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Emergency service under threat from working time directive
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Food emergency looms in war torn Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More than half of male medical students don't practise safe sex on holiday
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.184-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Doctors' emotional reactions to recent death of a patient: cross sectional study of hospital doctors
	Ellen M Redinbaugh, Amy M Sullivan, Susan D Block, Nina M Gadmer, Matthew Lakoma, Ann M Mitchell, Deborah Seltzer, Jennifer Wolford, Robert M Arnold
	BMJ  2003;327:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.185 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and friends: a cross sectional study
	Nikkie B Swarte, Marije L van der Lee, Johanna G van der Bom, Jan van den Bout, A Peter M Heintz
	BMJ  2003;327:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.189 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A good death in Uganda: survey of needs for palliative care for terminally ill people in urban areas
	Ekiria Kikule
	BMJ  2003;327:192-194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.192 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients
	Paul Glare, Kiran Virik, Mark Jones, Malcolm Hudson, Steffen Eychmuller, John Simes, Nicholas Christakis
	BMJ  2003;327:195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.195 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Novel consent process for research in dying patients unable to give consent
	Elizabeth Rees, Janet Hardy
	BMJ  2003;327:198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.198 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Patient information sheet] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Twenty five years of requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: trend analysis
	R L Marquet, A Bartelds, G J Visser, P Spreeuwenberg, L Peters
	BMJ  2003;327:201-202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.201 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	National survey of medical decisions at end of life made by New Zealand general practitioners
	Kay Mitchell, R Glynn Owens
	BMJ  2003;327:202-203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.202 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Planning for a good death: responding to unexpected events
	Y Saunders, J R Ross, J Riley
	BMJ  2003;327:204-206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.204 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: mother's response
	Lynn Boland, Diane Laverty
	BMJ  2003;327:206-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A healthy view of dying
	Julia Neuberger
	BMJ  2003;327:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.207 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quality care at the end of life in Africa
	Cecilia Sepulveda, Vincent Habiyambere, Jacinto Amandua, Margaret Borok, Ekie Kikule, Barbara Mudanga, Twalib Ngoma, Bogale Solomon
	BMJ  2003;327:209-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia
	Yvonne Y W Mak, Glyn Elwyn, Ilora G Finlay
	BMJ  2003;327:213-215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dead body with mourners: medical reflections on the entombment of Christ
	Johan P Mackenbach
	BMJ  2003;327:215-218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Historical and cultural variants on the good death
	Tony Walter
	BMJ  2003;327:218-220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Donald Harrison
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2003;327:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.228 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Stanley Dillon
	Roger Dillon
	BMJ  2003;327:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.228-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Eric Ronald Down
	Deepak Kalra, Bill Forsyth
	BMJ  2003;327:228-229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.228-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Alec Laylee
	David Cove
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	James Fleming McHarg
	Peter Aungle
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Charles Douglas Needham
	Peter F Jones
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Suli ("Pat") Patel
	Andy Anderson
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Ernest Herman Rainer
	Nicky Ashford
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	An apology:Obituary of David Horrobin
	BMJ  2003;327:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.229-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: The Hour of Our Death
	David Healy
	BMJ  2003;327:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: And When Did You Last See Your Father?
	Tamara Rader
	BMJ  2003;327:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.230-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Web: Death becomes us
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;327:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.231 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Press: It's never been a better time to die
	Tim Bullamore
	BMJ  2003;327:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A death photographed: one patient's story
	Simon O'Connor, Paul Schatzberger, Sheila Payne
	BMJ  2003;327:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: More photographs] FREE

	Book: Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care
	Ignasi Agell
	BMJ  2003;327:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: The good of small things
	Mary J Marret
	BMJ  2003;327:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.234-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Freedom from pain goes a long way to a "good death"
	Julia Riley
	BMJ  2003;327:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The Art of Dying
	Upasana Tayal
	BMJ  2003;327:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.235-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: A perfect death?
	Jane Morris
	BMJ  2003;327:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Freddie
	Simon Stephenson
	BMJ  2003;327:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.236-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: I dread not death but dying
	Brian Allt
	BMJ  2003;327:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.237 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Environmentally friendly disposal of the dead
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2003;327:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.237-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.238 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Continuous use of combined contraceptive pill minimises vaginal bleeding
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Endpiece: Inside our dreams