‘Without our health we have nothing’ (The importance of
self-acceptance, July 23.) Even for a doctor, with a doctor’s vested
interest, that’s an extraordinary statement - even in our milieu, with our
pathological obsession (and I use those words advisedly) with health.
What does Dr Libby’s attitude contribute towards the self-acceptance of the
chronically ill? What does it do for the terminally ill? If these people ‘have
nothing’, they may as well end their lives, or get someone else to do it for
them. Dr Libby may not intend it, but she sounds like an advocate for
euthanasia.
Such a mindset could hardly be called ‘Well and Good’, like her column. It’s sick and
bad.
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