7 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 16

THE RIGHT TO DIE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue—Addington in Note on The Golden Ass, Book X, says : " The office of a physician is to cure not to kill, as I have heard tell. many physicians of speculation have done, before they have come to practice." if medical men were em- powered by law to say when a patient ought to quit the world it might well leave invalids with uneasy minds, for bad as things may be, not a few recover despite the doctor.—