23 NOVEMBER 1962, Page 17

No LICENCE TO KILL

SIR,—It is not the horror of deformity that has been driven L (He Lome, though Tribune's Flavius may think so. eir_,_sul,usl move in very restricted or insensitive n The frightening, brain-chilling realisation is takiY_°ur own words: a court has condoned the by an individual, and has received geneurgl of life

sympathy for so doing.

f__"- mercy killings expression of this approval or sympathy killings who is to say `stop,' or `slow; who clecide upon the degree of `permitted' de- formity?

And for the old, disabled, and incurably ill—wbo is to weigh us in the balance, and find quite a few of us wanting?

We ask with lively hope for the blessing and mercy of Almighty God on our conditions. My elderly and tripped fellows would expect little from any local authority 'licenced to kill.' Let us leave these things in God's hands.

ROGER HUNTER