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Deeper truth behind opera’s swan songs Letters © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian I read with interest your article on terminal lucidity (‘The clouds cleared’: what terminal lucidity teaches us about life, death and dementia, 23 February), about those near death who briefly regain their mental strength and clarity. This phenomenon might be relatively new to scientists, but operas have been exploiting it for centuries. Consumptive heroines and flawed heroes often insist on singing a long aria before finally expiring. Such scenes have long been ridiculed, but perhaps they actually express a deeper truth about the human condition than was hitherto suspected?

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