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P0 Box 1, Southport 4215 editorial@goldcoast.com.au facebook.com/goldcoastbulletin I HAVE been married for very many decades to a wonderful, hardworking special man.

He is a much loved man by not only his four children but by our many great friends and relations.

Over the last four years he’s had heart surgery and hip replacement. He has diseased kidneys, had three strokes, is now incontinent, depressed and has dementia.

The care and attention he’s received from both the Gold Coast University Hospital and Robina Hospital are second to none.

The paramedics who have attended him are all wonderful and so caring.

Why, oh why, do we have to keep our loved folk alive when all they wish for is a little pill and choose the time to die? It has been his wish for over a year.

This week he refused to take another pill. He wants to live at home and for me to look after him but I feel as I’m tired and weary even though help is available.

Politicians and the medical fraternity should seriously band together and listen to what most folk want for their loved ones.

Could my great husband and please leave the world with some dignity and his wish answered.

LOIS MCCULLOCH

HERE we go again, drugs in football. When is enough, enough?

Do we wait for three strikes and you’re out, or let’s get serious. Kick them out now.

These “footballers” know right from wrong, they get paid plenty to play football, be role models and are meant to be leaders.

We, the public, help support them with our money, through sponsorship, going to games and buying their merchandise.

I, however, will no longer support any code if the powers-thatbe refuse to clean up the sport.

The players continually ask for redemption and get away with a slap on the wrist or a caution. It’s time to make our sport drugs free.

KJB, SOUTHPORT

THERE are people who are calling to decriminalise drug taking yet want NRL players to be banned for life for the same offence.

Their reasoning is these players are well paid. That argument, however, seems unfair unless it applies to all well-paid young people.

We know this won’t happen unless we bring in a system where fines are related to earnings.

We know this won’t happen because those who make the laws are high earners. I don’t know what the answer is but definitely not the each-way bet some people want.

ROD WATSON, MAIN BEACH

A CONSEQUENCE of last century’s world wars was deafness caused by exploding bombs.

When veterans returned, injuries such as blindness and lost limbs were obvious – but not deafness.

They would not have been able to hear all the sounds dear to them and, dangerously, nor would they hear traffic coming.

At that time little was known about deafness and the cochlear implant and other methods had not been invented.

Surely there is an alternative to war to solve the world’s problems.

A. SUTHERLAND, ROBINA