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Is there such a thing as a ‘good death’? It is time we found out

Few people talk about the idea of the “good death”, except sometimes to console themselves after some loved one has died that, as passings go, theirs wasn’t so terribly bad.

A friend recently passed away in a scuba-diving accident and we tried the consoling balm of telling ourselves at least she was adventuring as was her wont, but it did little to soothe the sting of a wonderful life cut short.