I am a former resident of Albury and upon reading The Border Mail website on Thursday I read about the hoons doing burnouts at the funeral of their mate at the Glenmorus Cemetery. There is no respect in doing this.
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It is a quiet place where people go to reflect relatives or friends that have been lost – it is a resting place.
The people involved should be charged by the police, made to clean up the roads at the cemetery and also do 100 hours community work at the cemetery.
If the young man who passed away had not been doing something illegal then he would not have been there. The behaviour at the funeral was an absolute disgrace.
Susan Jones, Yamba
We respect the process
I write in response to the letter to the editor (September 14) from Beechworth Football Netball Club regarding the incident in the U/14s Beechworth versus Wodonga Saints game held on July 22, 2017.
As president of the Wodonga Saints Football Netball Club I can say as a club we do not condone violence on or off the field of any kind. We accepted the decision handed down by the tribunal our player involved.
As any responsible club would, if one of their players was manhandled by an umpire, we requested the league investigate. The league appointed an independent investigator who spoke to all parties and made his own recommendation to the league. The matter was then taken to an independent tribunal who made a decision.
The Wodonga Saints Football Netball Club respects the process taken by the TDFL and accepts all decisions made by the independent tribunal and has no wish to further debate the matter in a public forum.
Dale Skinner, president, Saints Football Netball Club
‘You don’t kill people’
I watched the euthanasia lobby's Go Gentle Australia's Andrew Denton's 2016 speech to the Canberra Press Club and the questions that followed his address.
When asked about the possibility of a “slippery slope” following Victoria's planned Assisted Dying legislation, Denton freely admitted the strategy was to get this through and “others” were then free to pursue the widening of criteria.
Coinciding with the introduction of Daniel Andrews legislation is the release of a book by Cambridge University Press Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium revealing thousands of patients have been euthanised in Belgium and only half of euthanasia deaths are reported.
Since legalisation in 2002, euthanasia has been “normalised”, with more and more cases of life ending without request.
A leading palliative care doctor who is sympathetic to euthanasia warned in 2013 that once the barrier of legalisation was passed, “euthanasia tends to develop a dynamic of its own and extend beyond agreed restrictions”.
They conclude: “Death by euthanasia in Belgium is, generally, no longer regarded as an exception requiring special justification. Instead, it is often regarded as a normal death and a benefit not to be restricted without special justification.”
Belgium, Oregon, Victoria … wherever. Four words say it all: You don't kill people. It will be argued Mr Andrews’ euthanasia legislation won't be compulsory. Really? That's big of him. I understood him to be Premier, not Lord High Executioner of Victoria.
