33 Meditations on Death is distilled from over forty years experience in front line medicine and reflects on how medicine and society need a serious conversation about the limitations of treatment in those frail and elderly nearing the end of their lives.  Covid-19 has made this books central themes even more prescient.  This Wile E Coyote moment for Mankind must surely lead to a greater understanding of the unforgiving nature  of ageing.  It has been reviewed as "grimly humorous", "ultimately life affirming" and "playful and profound."