Article content We have become a culture that neglects its elderly, disabled and other vulnerable citizens. Rarely do we offer them our time. Leaving their needs unattended, we do not show these people that they are loved, and their mental health declines.
Without love they see no reason to live, and eventually some consider suicide. Offering doctor-assisted suicide tells these people that their lives are not worth our time or energy. Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) offers them an easy way out of life, rather than a loving way to live life.
Our vulnerable family members, friends and neighbours must be loved, and protected from this. ELISHA HOLWERDA ARTHUR, ONT. As a cottage-country girl working in a downtown Toronto law firm during the 1980s, I emulated the fashion savoir-faire of my more sophisticated co-workers.
Proud was I to be working in a prosperous city, the financial capital of Canada and indeed one of the banking hubs of the world. Now retired, I see few well-dressed people on my infrequent visits to my old haunts, which leaves me wondering where the chic crowd has gone. Have the homeless lying about the streets taken their place? Many shops are closed.
The cannabis emporia, though, remain in business. Could there somehow be a nexus here? Or is this concept so preposterous that only a rube like me would be likely to entertain it? CAROL-FAYE PETRICKO TORONTO I am 85 and on a fixed income. My car insurance just increased $165, house insurance rose $110 and municipal.