David Bowie's son reveals poignant letter from doctor

In the words of his longtime producer Tony Visconti, David Bowie turned his death into "a work of Art."

And a new open letter from a palliative care doctor, which Bowie's son Duncan Jones shared on Twitter, honors the late musician's death just days after he released his twenty-fifth album, Blackstar.

"I am a palliative care doctor, and what you have done in the time surrounding your death has had a profound effect on me and many people I work with," Dr. Mark Taubert, a palliative care consultant in Cardiff, Wales, writes on the British Medical Journal's blog.

In yet another poignant tribute to the artist's remarkable life, Taubert thanks Bowie for his many career accomplishments, before discussing the positive impact Bowie's end-of-life health choices can have on palliative care.

On the release of Blackstar:

"For me, the fact that your gentle death at home coincided so closely with the release of your album, with its good-bye message, in my mind is unlikely to be coincidence. All of this was carefully planned, to become a work of death art. The video of Lazarus is very deep and many of the scenes will mean different things to us all; for me it is about dealing with the past when you are faced with inevitable death."

On Bowie's death at home:

"Many people I talk to as part of my job think that death predominantly happens in hospitals, in very clinical settings, but I presume you chose home and planned this in some detail. This is one of our aims in palliative care, and your ability to achieve this may mean that others will see it as an option they would like fulfilled.

The photos that emerged of you some days after your death, were said to be from the last weeks of your life. I do not know whether this is correct, but I am certain that many of us would like to carry off a sharp suit in the same way that you did in those photos. You looked great, as always, and it seemed in direct defiance of all the scary monsters that the last weeks of life can be associated with."

Bowie's final photoshoot was posted to his official site days before his death.

On discussing Bowie's death with a patient with advanced cancer:

"And then we talked about a good death, the dying moments and what these typically look like. And we talked about palliative care and how it can help...We both wondered who may have been around you when you took your last breath and whether anyone was holding your hand. I believe this was an aspect of the vision she had of her own dying moments that was of utmost importance to her, and you gave her a way of expressing this most personal longing to me, a relative stranger."

Read the full letter here.