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The service opened with the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", chosen, the family said, because "it encapsulates David's own optimistic outlook". His twin brother, Darren, recalled the pair's last encounter in Australia. "He was a shattered man; he looked so tired and frail, and the scars were so clearly visible," he said. The PR consultant Max Clifford, representing Rathband's estranged wife Kath, said she was at the service, despite requests from the family for her not to attend.
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