Forum, Jun. 23, 1975

To the Editors:

The best advice to children on "How to Help Our Parents" [June 9] might well be the same those children gave when their parents wondered what to give them for birthday/Christmas/ graduation, etc.: SEND MONEY.

Lillian Stough

Phoenix

I am 83 years old, living in an excellent nursing home, but with failing sight and hearing like Shakespeare's seventh age of man. I am in a position to say this: Shouldn't compassion, common sense and economics unite to decree that some old folks' lives be mercifully terminated? It hurts me to think of the good that could be done with the...

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