Sir, – Every Saturday, I read your obituaries page with great interest, sadness sometimes, and admiration for lives well-lived.
Within a couple of lines, you provide the service of highlighting the piece of information my instinct for survival needs before reading on – the age of the deceased.
Separate from the premature passing of some of those recorded, I am in an age range where I find myself assiduously adding to, or subtracting from, that of the recently departed.
It’s a personal mortality thing. – Yours, etc,
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OLIVER McGRANE
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 16.