Sir, - Dr Bill Tormey says (April 11th): "There is a danger that a right to die could become a duty to die." The corollary is that we have a duty to live (or "live"), no matter how painful (mentally and/or physically) to patient and or relatives, no matter how pointless, and worst of all - no matter what the patient wishes.
Why? Because the doctor says so. Is this medical ethics, or is it "passing by on the other side"? - Yours, etc.,
Yellow Walls Road,
Malahide,
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Co Dublin.