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David Bowie's son Duncan Jones has broken his silence after his father's death, to share a touching letter from a cancer palliative care doctor.
The acclaimed film director, who with his father's wife Iman issued a statement last week to thank fans for their support and reveal that Bowie would be having a private and intimate funeral, has taken back to social media to re-tweet Marie Curie, with a moving thank you letter from a palliative care nurse:
A thank you letter to David Bowie from a palliative care doctor. https://t.co/ibFYRY8wc1 - thanks for sharing @DrMarkTaubert
— Marie Curie (@mariecurieuk) January 17, 2016
In the lengthy message to the late, great rock icon, Cardiff's Dr Mark Taubert wrote of Bowie's life and death and the wider impact of cancer of the lives of so many: "Whilst realization of your death was sinking in during those grey, cold January days of 2016, many of us went on with our day jobs."
He continued: "At the beginning of that week I had a discussion with a hospital patient, facing the end of her life. We discussed your death and your music, and it got us talking about numerous weighty subjects, that are not always straightforward to discuss with someone facing their own demise. In fact, your story became a way for us to communicate very openly about death, something many doctors and nurses struggle to introduce as a topic of conversation.”
Signing off, Taubert wrote: "Thank you for 'Lazarus' and Blackstar. I am a palliative care doctor, and what you have done in the time surrounding your death has had a profound effect on me and many people I work with. Your album is strewn with references, hints and allusions. As always, you don't make interpretation all that easy, but perhaps that isn't the point."
On the day of his father's death, Jones tweeted:
Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all. pic.twitter.com/Kh2fq3tf9m
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 11, 2016
Meanwhile, this weekend also saw Kate Bush pay tribute to Bowie - while reports have emerged of Adele, Coldplay and Noel Gallagher forming a Bowie supergroup in his memory at next month's BRIT Awards.
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