LETTER:When hope tips scales of life and death

From Mr Dominic Brisby

Sir: Angela Lambert, in supporting the killing of a two-year-old, fails to grasp the basic moral issues of euthanasia. She justifies her view by claiming that the boy would have "no possibility, ever, of a normal life". This may well be true, but this does not mean he should have his life taken away from him.

It is fact that many seriously ill, seriously brain-damaged, seriously disabled people have happy and fulfilling lives, but their lives can never be normal. Surely they have just as much of a right to live as the rest of us.

The "appalling and twisted set of values" she attributes to those who support the sanctity of life would be better attributed to herself. If the basis for deciding whether a small child should live or die is normality, many of uswould now be dead.

Yours faithfully,

Dominic Brisby

Little Haywood, Staffordshire