THE ideas of Shirley Mathias and Joel Joffe belong in Nazi Germany not a caring sharing society like Britain.

I wish I could dismiss their views as codswallop but unfortunately it is the dangerous view of too many selfish people, who are more concerned at unscrupulously getting rid of (what is to their minds) excess and costly baggage, than providing good palliative care and making a person feel cherished and pain free to the natural end.

As one of the elderly and disabled of this country I wrote to MPs and the Lords, along with many other concerned terminally and mentally ill, physically disabled and thousands of caring others, who have reason to not want the Joffe bill to go through.

Fortunately they heard our concerns and acted upon them.

If Ms Mathias thinks my views are codswallop can she tell me why she needs legislation to kill herself if she wants to die?

Sadly, there are people, young and old, who find the means to commit suicide every day without implicating the poor doctors (who voted against the bill.) Selecting certain groups of our society for killing (as with aborted babies) is genocide, whether it is legalised or not.

Legalisation does not make it right, and it should be defeated as Nazi Germany was.

BARBARA WILLIAMS Swindon