The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7497 p438
12 April 2008

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Euthanasia

Hard cases always make bad law

From Mrs M. M. Mortimer, MRPharmS

I am sorry for the wife of Bob Michell (PJ, 8 March 2008, p272), but, as always, hard cases make bad law.

Hospital staff told me, on two occasions, that my husband would not live, so I was grateful when they persisted in their efforts to revive him, giving him seven years of reasonable life and enabling our children to know they had a father.

In more than 40 years of pharmacy and 15 years of hospital ministry, I have seen many people who have lived a reasonable life against all predictions.

The only thing that protects us from being terminated by mistake or design, particularly as we get older, is a complete ban on the taking of life, without which I would be afraid to trust myself to the medics.

In any case, what is this article doing in The Journal, which is supposed to deal with pharmaceutical matters?

Monica Mortimer
Enfield, Middlesex

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