Sir, I am not remotely surprised by your report “Parents call in lawyers over soaring care costs” (Dec 13). I have a living will which states that should I develop dementia, or any other condition that leaves me unable to care for myself and to speak for myself, I do not want any interventions (aside from treatment of fractures) that is intended to keep me going when nature might be trying to let me go.
Having witnessed my mother go on to the age 97, a most pitiful shell of incontinent, advanced dementia for her last few years, and never really enjoying life since the first signs in her early eighties, this is the last thing I want for myself. And I most certainly do