THE harrowing picture painted by A Lubin (Swindon Advertiser, Feb 1) regarding the suicide of a woman who had watched her husband die in extreme pain made painful reading indeed. A Lubin's plea for the law to be changed to provide a legally assisted death seems to be a just and impartial objective.

However, if we cast our minds back to the 1960s, the same sort of arguments and heart-rending scenarios were being propagated by the pro-abortion lobby. The trickle of illegal back-street abortions in 1966 has become an avalanche of legal ones in 2006.

The same will happen once euthanasia is legalised. By the year 2030 it will be de rigueur, once one has reached a certain age, to attend a discontinuance assessment evaluation clinic, or some such double-speak title.

Rapacious relatives and a cold- hearted medical establishment will prod confused and elderly people towards their dignity injection, but we can be sure that the affluent and the politicians will dream up some get-out clause for themselves, and that they will enjoy a full life span.

T McLELLAN Toothill, Swindon