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Cancer doctor thanks Bowie for helping people face death
People look at and place flowers amongst tributes laid beside a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London, Tuesday, Jan
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People look at and place flowers amongst tributes laid beside a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday aged 69. He was born in Brixton. (AP/Matt Dunham) (AP/Matt Dunham)
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span class="caption">People look at and place flowers amongst tributes laid beside a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday aged 69. He was born in Brixton. (AP/Matt Dunham)
A British doctor who works with terminally ill people has thanked David Bowie for helping open up a conversation about death.
Bowie died of cancer Jan. 10 aged 69 and Dr. Mark Taubert says it helped him speak to one dying cancer patient about how to have "a good death."
In a blog on the British Medical Journal website, Taubert said Bowie's story "became a way for us to communicate very openly about death."
Taubert's blog was reposted on social media Sunday by Bowie's son, Duncan Jones.
Bowie did not go public about his illness, but made a final album, "Blackstar," that meditated on life and mortality.
Taubert said Bowie's final acts had "had a profound effect on me and many people I work with." (kes)
