MICHAEL Baldasera, writing to argue against the concept of assisted suicide (HAS, April 21), states that “the public at large see the need to keep the law as it is, once the potential for abuse is generally known”.
I find this rather surprising in that whenever a case is in the news, public opinion polls register a huge majority in favour of a change in the law.
It is surely not beyond the wit of man to devise a foolproof system to avoid any coercion. A legal declaration like a living will signed and sealed sometime beforehand or at the diagnosis of an incurable illness should ensure that abuse cannot take place.
Eric Gendle, Nunthorpe Middlesbrough.
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