Volume 176 - Issue 3
No obituary in "Death and Dying" issue
Author: Martin B Van Der Weyden
Med J Aust 2002; 176 (3): 196. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04337.x
Published online: 18 February 2002
Published online: 18 February 2002
In reply: I am reminded of a line from the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson:
Nowadays, the opportunity to be the voice commemorating the life of a colleague through an obituary in the Journal seems to be of low priority for members of Australia's medical profession. The decade 1991–2000 saw the lowest number of obituaries published by the Journal in the five decades since 1951.1 We did not include an obituary in the "Death and Dying" issue because, fortunately or unfortunately, the obituary tray was empty.