I have now been treated for cancer twice and am waiting for the results of further tests. Some people remark how calm I am and are rather startled at my reply that I look on cancer with the eye of hope rather than fear or despair. I hope that it may release me from a far greater terror of being lodged in an old people's home - a rung on the career ladder of some community carer. I visit old people in a variety of homes. I know I do not wish to go to any of them.
I am67 and in my right mind. Now seems to be the right time to protect myself from the apparent enthusiasm of modern medicine to keep me alive at all costs. An article in the Sunday Times states that you are able to supply the necessary Living Will forms and information for two 25p stamps per person. As I have a friend who is also interested, I would like two sets of forms please, so I am enclosing one pound's worth of stamps.