From Mr N. Fearon, MRPharmS
SIR,—The “Broad Spectrum” article by Weiss and Hanlon on the
pharmacist’s role in physician-assisted suicide (PJ, October 28, p649)
to me is disastrous, dismaying and distasteful. To a physician or pharmacist,
assisted suicide would in almost all instances be against the wishes of the
individual who would be so ill as to be incoherent. Members of the family are
almost certainly to be in opposition. Acts of witting or unwiting measures cannot
be accepted in such grave instances. Parliament has made it plain that the nation
does not want such acts. The media would blazen all such instances.
Suicide and borderline actions are against Christian theology and as such I
myself would wish always to accept what life or death offers to me even if I
was desperately ill.
Norman Fearson
Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk