diff --git a/pyogg/ogg_opus_writer.py b/pyogg/ogg_opus_writer.py
index 547d0f5..c4c6cd4 100644
--- a/pyogg/ogg_opus_writer.py
+++ b/pyogg/ogg_opus_writer.py
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ def __init__(self,
 
         # Create a packet (reused for each pass)
         self._ogg_packet = ogg.ogg_packet()
-        self._packet_valid = False
 
         # Create a page (reused for each pass)
         self._ogg_page = ogg.ogg_page()
@@ -174,14 +173,6 @@ def close(self) -> None:
         # Flush the underlying buffered encoder
         self._write_to_oggopus(memoryview(bytearray(b"")), flush=True)
 
-        # The current packet must be the end of the stream, update
-        # the packet's details
-        self._ogg_packet.e_o_s = 1
-
-        # Write the packet to the stream
-        if self._packet_valid:
-            self._write_packet()
-
         # Flush the stream of any unwritten pages
         self._flush()