This is in response to the May 17 letter [“On speech, expression and tolerance”]. The letter writer clearly expressed his opinion about “political correctness” and intolerance. I disagree with his opinions. I dislike the term “political correctness,”.
I found my professional passion in hospice 25 years ago. It was never my intention to work with people near the end of their lives. I went into medicine to cure and comfort, but I quickly learned the importance of comforting when a cure was no longer.
“Dying people should have the right to choose how and when they leave Mother Earth,” wrote the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He would have supported the End of Life Options Act (Mass. H. 2381 and S. 1384) and so do I.This letter is prompted by the.