One can only have great sympathy for Hans Küng, but it is one thing to have no wish to prolong one’s life and quite another to take deliberate steps to end it. As Arthur Hugh Clough wrote: “thou shalt not kill/ but needst not strive/ officiously to keep alive”. We all have the right to refuse the medication that keeps some of us alive in old age. My mother at 95 refused her heart pills and antibiotics. She died within a few months. It was painful to watch it happeni