title: Here's to immortality.
abstract: The news that a 20-year-old woman needed a liver transplant after years of heavy drinking reminded me of Wilfred Owen's poem Anthem for Doomed Youth - a moving reflection on the waste of young lives in the first world war.
authors.affiliation: Works in outpatients in Hampshire.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bates