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The recent preference for applause to mark someone's death is baffling in the extreme. And it sends out precisely the wrong signals: at its worst, it looks as if we're all glad that he's dead. Instead, a mnute of silent relection, shared among many thousands of bowed heads, provides a far more...

Applause - a time-honoured way of expressing approval = seems such an inappropriate, almost offensive, way of marking someone's death. A minute's silence - observed before the game - would be so much more fitting, poignant, and respectful..