Jay Lewis Williams and
Helen Issler respond to Kate Clanchy’s article about the death of her parents and recent debate about assisted dying
‘I cannot be the only doctor who worries about how they might have to quietly manage their own death, should the need arise,’ writes Helen Issler. Photograph: Alamy
‘I cannot be the only doctor who worries about how they might have to quietly manage their own death, should the need arise,’ writes Helen Issler. Photograph: Alamy
Letters
Thu 8 Apr 2021 13.07 EDT
Last modified on Thu 8 Apr 2021 17.16 EDT
Please thank Kate Clanchy for her powerful and moving article about the death of her parents, Joan and Michael (Letting go: my battle to help my parents die a good death, 6 April). They had thought long and hard about their lives, and had both written advance decisions asking not to receive “heroic interventions” should they be hospitalised before dying. They had enjoyed happy and productive lives, and were not afraid of death.