IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(1):47-49; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl264
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Acts of God
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In August 2003, I took my 23-year-old son to St Tropez in the South of France for the bank holiday weekend. After lunch we went for a swim and had a couple of races, which he won. As I went to change, I saw him floating in the sea near the pier. I remember thinking he was fooling around trying to see how long he could hold his breath. The following events play forever in my mind, over and over,