30 DECEMBER 2000, Page 22

Death wishes

From Mr Peter J. Farrell Sir: With reference to your leading article (2 December), about ten years ago a coun- try doctor in New South Wales wrote a let- ter to the Sydney Morning Herald in which he stated that, in more than 40 years of clinical practice he had received lots of requests for euthanasia from relatives but none from patients.

Peter J. Farrell

Tranmere, South Australia