Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, By the logic of your leading article (“Unintended Consequences”, Oct 5), we must also examine the unintended consequences of keeping the blanket ban on assisted dying. Our present law fails to protect terminally ill people from agony that even the best palliative care cannot prevent. It fails to prevent dying people from taking their own lives. To reject change on assisted dying is to accept that we are satisfied with this status quo. This debate is not only about whether to legalise assisted dying.
