In loving memory
Sir: When Clarissa Tan covered last year’s Good Funeral Awards, it quickly became apparent that she was a woman facing her greatest fears with a gentle and courageous spirit. She left an enduring impression on all who met her. In her subsequent article for this magazine (‘The ideal death show’, 14 September 2013) she wrote of the hope she derived from her belief in God: ‘It is the hope not that I will live. It is the hope that I am loved.’
You were, Clarissa, and you are.
Charles Cowling
Director of the Good Funeral Guide
Redditch, Worcestershire
Mitigating circumstances
Sir: My colleague Matt Ridley is correct to note that in the press release which accompanied the IPCC’s most recent publication ‘the word “adaptation” occurred ten times, the word “mitigation” not at all’. Possibly, this has something to with the fact that this was part two of a four-part report, and called ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’.
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