Final Years
Eddington's autobiography, So Far, So Good, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1995. On October 30, 1995, Eddington made a moving appearance in the television series Face to Face, discussing his life, career and disease with Jeremy Isaacs. On that show, Eddington said, "A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me."
He died in Southwark, London, and was survived by his wife, Patricia Scott, and their three sons and daughter. BBC1 aired a half-hour tribute to him on 15 July 2001 called Paul Eddington: A Life Well Lived.
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