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Randall name-checks philosophers — Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Marcus Aurelius — he misunderstands to his advantage and drops references to the Catiline Conspiracy and the Battle of Actium to make base actions sound important and dignified.

“And just seeing you, as an actor, and parts you play ... But also, you have this very dignified quality about you.”

The new campus replaces a creaky, 1930s-era school with a dignified facade and bell tower.

And, in the act of gathering the tools to give that person a dignified end, could they learn to welcome death as an expansion of life?

Mr Wilson, 75, who has homes in London and Nottingham, supports the idea of assisted dying and says the proposed changes in law would have given his wife a more "dignified" death.