Legendary broadcaster and author Clive James penned a poem containing his musings on death back in 2014.
Clive, who died on Sunday aged 80 at his home in Cambridge after a battle with a long illness, was first terminally diagnosed in 2010, nearly a decade before his death.
In 2014, the Australian put pen to paper again to express his thoughts on his "fading out", as he put it.
Initially published in US magazine The New Yorker, the poem, titled Japanese Maple, detailed his wish to see the trees change colour "come autumn."
He also grapples with the idea that his death is "so slow" that it "brings no real pain."
United Agents, who represented the journalistic and literary icon, put out a statement "on behalf of Clive James' Family."
"Clive James, poet, critic, and broadcaster," it read, "Died at his home on Sunday 24th November 2019.
"A private funeral attended by family and close friends took place in the chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge on Wednesday 27th November.
"Clive died almost ten years after his first terminal diagnosis, and one month after he laid down his pen for the last time. He endured his ever-multiplying illnesses with patience and good humour, knowing until the last moment that he had experienced more than his fair share of this 'great, good world.'"
The statement went on to thank the staff at the hospital at which he was treated, as well as those at a hospice "for their help in his last days."
Clive's career took off as a literary critic, before he rose to even greater prominence through his television career.
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After he was diagnosed, he told the BBC of his poetry: "I like to think that I hit a sort of plangent tone.
"A sort of last post, a recessional tone."
Clive was noted during his final years for even penning an obituary for himself, commenting to journalists: "If they really, sincerely, need a biographical note they should feel free to quote any or all of the following, preferably keeping in mind that shorter is better, and that a single line is best."
