Letter
Life and Death
7 August 1986
SIR: Two correspondents in the last number of your paper take issue with me. We should ask the first, Vera Liebert, if we are to kill severely retarded children for their sakes, or for ours? And is it all right to kill the senile as well, provided they are senile enough?Gerard Elfstrom seems to have missed the long central paragraph of my review in which I single out for reasoned criticism the mistake...