Exit right?
Sir: At last Saturday's extraordinary general meeting of EXIT, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Mr Nicholas Reed, the Secretary, urged his members to write to the Spectator in response to Andrew Brown's `The Swedish way of death' (14 February). I am not a member, but I think a study of the Swedish equivalent of EXIT shows how, by a shift of public attitudes, the law may become a dead letter.
EXIT may have become a household name because of a national death wish, but a more likely explanation is its new-found energy in public promotion. It does no harm to be aware of how hard EXIT is being marketed. Anyone who opposes its ideas is left in the dilemma of knowing that a protest succeeds only in boosting publicity,
Christopher Howse Catholic Herald, Lambs Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1
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