Respect is due to a man who reached ninety, even if his passing was marked only by silence. Police insist there was “no unusual smell or anything suspicious”. If crime demands a nose, then here the scent was absent and so was suspicion. But the harsher reality for those of us who may reach ninety is that the end may come not with a smell of suspicion, but with silence, a fate as ordinary as it is sobering.
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