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Your support makes all the difference.Imagine a time when cash is obsolete and we have only the option of using e-money (“Bitcoin millionaire buries $2m in hidden treasures across US with cryptic clues”, Tuesday 26 November).
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A question of choice
The debate on assisted dying – more precisely, the arguments against it – has stirred up memories and anger for me ("Five arguments for and against legalising assisted dying", Friday 29 November).
While she was dying in hospital, my aunt suffered a broken hip through rough handling. My dad was left to die on a ward with only my mum, me and my son to help him through his last hours. My mum died after waiting hours for an ambulance, on a trolley in a corridor outside A&E.
So don’t tell me the plans for assisted dying will put people in danger. That already happens. This bill is about giving people the right to choose when, how and where they die – if they want to exercise that choice.
Julia Hatch
Puglia, Italy
Who benefits from assisted dying?
The assisted dying debate has been a national disgrace (“Tanni Grey-Thompson: Before voting on assisted dying, I urge MPs to read this...”, Friday 29 November). It sprang from nowhere because Keir Starmer made a private promise to Esther Rantzen earlier this year that if he became PM, he would make time for a debate in parliament.
Assisted dying is more about assisting the living than the dying. You were not given a choice to be born, so why should you be given the choice to die?
Jamal Khan
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Always a cross word...
Today’s Concise Crossword was excellent. Took me ages but all the clues were reasonable, just with unusual words. Nothing obscure – but it did need a bit more searching of the outer reaches of the mind.
More like this, please!
Mark Ogilvie
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
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