'May Diana now be allowed to rest in peace.'

At the end of the Diana inquest we have repeatedly heard the mawkish cliche 'may she now be allowed to rest in peace'. One good thing about being dead is that we are no longer troubled by any goings-on about us in this world.

Even if you are religious, the phrase requiescat in pace expresses the wish that the departed soul may not have to suffer for the sins the deceased committed in this life - which is a very different matter from the sins committed in connection with this inquest by muckrakers, attention seekers and paranoiacs.