Letters

Euthanasia

Ed, I watched a most interesting television show the other day, the subject was euthanasia and the case for its legalisation was put, flawlessly, by Andrew Denton. I felt however that there was an issue that perhaps was avoided and one that I believe should be decided by the public and it’s this. What person in an aged care facility, for example, has the authority to decree, that in the pursuit of medical science, a patient becomes a guinea pig? Thomas Macindoe, Yamba