Madam, - Brian Judd of Active Retirement Ireland (June 22nd) seems to have misunderstood the point of Angela Macnamara's letter of the previous day. If an elderly person's life must be maintained by a life-support system, the sweetness of life will have disappeared.
Angela Macnamara was speaking for those of us elderly who love life and will be happy, if stricken, to embrace death as painlessly as possible and as a friend. - Yours, etc,
J. HICKEY, Kilmacud, Dublin 14.