SIR – Professor John Keown’s expertise in ethics (Letters, December 22) is unimpeachable, but he is wrong to suggest that allowing dying people to choose the manner and timing of their deaths would represent the state’s “endorsement” of that choice. It would be just as accurate to suggest that the state is “endorsing” the unnecessary suffering of dying people who would presently want to make that choice.
SIR – Rather than rely solely upon water companies, it should be mandatory for all new buildings to have storage and recycling facilities built in, to catch and retain rainfall on their roofs.
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