5 FEBRUARY 1977, Page 15

T he Archbishop I have read with amazement and disgust an

article by Auberon Waugh in your issue IS January entitled Secret, smouldering Niarred. He makes a most violent attack on • Coggan for a very Christian and kindly statement about not keeping very old people ,al,ive by difficult and time-consuming means "len they are unconscious 'and living like vegetables.

, very often dislike what Auberon Waugh :rites, but this article is so disgustingly rude • unfair that I am driven to protest. I do cin",,I3,t think you ought to accept and print such „..vel, especially about an archbishop, who "ust be wounded if he should read it, but "nuld be most unlikely to take action.

I am With eighty myself, and I entirely agree

s. what the Archbishop said. 36 Ph. Emery