Are baby Charlie’s parents right to fight on?

Reading about the agony that charlie gard’s parents connie and chris are going through i have some empathy with their situation. i was born in 1942 three months premature and weighing 1lb 10oz, while my father was fighting in north africa with the coldstream guards. as i was ailing, my mother asked if it was all right to feed me milk. The reply was: ‘Feed him what you like — he won’t survive.’ in the event, here i am 75 years later having had a good healthy life and having done well in sport and education. The experts aren’t always right.

RAY STOCKTON, West Wickham, Kent.

I CAN understand Charlie’s parents’ anguish, but there comes a point when you have to say enough is enough. I have been involved in many situations when relatives can’t comprehend that their loved one is brain damaged (or brain dead ) and will never recover, even to the point when a father actually offered his own brain to save his son! Life purely for life’s sake is not life. To discontinue Charlie’s life support would be a blessing for him, as he is being kept alive, rather than being allowed to die peacefully. If this had all happened when Charlie had been older, and the profound and dreadful effects of this condition more noticeable, then Charlie’s parents may well have looked at things differently.

MS PAT POOLE, St Austell, Cornwall.

WHO’S playing god in this tragic little boy’s life? if doctors switch off all the machines and he still lives, it is god’s will. Let god make the decision, not donald Trump or the Pope.

MRS DOROTHY DOBSON, Beccles, Suffolk.