Assisted suicide

Correspondent Jack Havill believes some suicidal people who believe their unbearable suffering to be unending are irrational, while others, those seeking or being urged towards “medical aid in dying”, are mentally competent. A couple of months ago in your paper Dr Ron Jones exposed the hypocrisy of using terms like “medically assisted dying”. Medicine and medical personnel by definition have nothing to do with the matter of taking life. Euthanasia advocates should invoke the aid of those whose profession it is to take life and leave the medical profession right out of it. This might put a more realistic complexion on what is going on.

Tony Molloy, Morrinsville.