Goal is to reduce suffering

As someone who has lost relatives to cancer, I fully agree with Dr George Wong Seow Choon's comments ("Time to talk about new laws on dying"; last Friday).

The law values life, yet ironically, we practise capital punishment here.

Even animals are put to sleep when they are suffering, but humans are expected to endure pain.

Louis Francis Albert

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