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Thanks for all the supportive comments. He wasn't in any pain and his passing was made as good as it possibly could have been by incredibly caring and patient hospital staff, despite all the pressure they're under. They let his daughter and two sons sit with him and play music to him (Beres Hammond, Luciano and Dennis Brown in the early hours in King's ICU) for as long as they wanted before turning the equipment off. Then they let them wash and change him, before removing all the tubes. In the middle of a crisis, this level of humanity is so, so important and I know how much difference it has made to my partner today in terms of the memories she will have of her father.