Comments on: Julian Sheather: On death, dying, and “Departures” http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/01/28/julian-sheather-on-death-dying-and-departures/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Peter English http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/01/28/julian-sheather-on-death-dying-and-departures/#comment-16416 Peter English Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:33:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=24106#comment-16416 The Japanese seem to be good at films about death! Anotehr good one (and there are others) is Itami’s “The Funeral” (broadcast a long time ago on BBC2 as “The Japanese Way of Death”). Details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funeral_%281984_film%29

Incidentally, another of Itami’s films is another favourite of mine – “Tampopo” – a film a film all about food, which ends by gradually zooming out from a scene of a baby being breast fed.

]]> By: Faye Clark http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/01/28/julian-sheather-on-death-dying-and-departures/#comment-16414 Faye Clark Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:11:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=24106#comment-16414 Having been a nurse before pursuing medicine in mid life, death and “laying-out” were old friends – and I can only agree that the grace with which these last tasks are performed,including family members in the process if they desire, can make a useful contribution to their acceptance and understanding of death, and can be a time on very important and in sightful conversations. I hastily add that I did not necessarily see it as a task for myself with my patients – but was moved on occasion to be asked to participate, having explained the process prior to the patient’s death…

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