23 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 13

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dean Inge's letter in

your last issue is very remark- able, and shows the rapid change of public opinion. But if Birth Control is allowable, why not Death Control ? Why should not those who are elderly and disillusioned or racked with pain and incurable disease be allowed to pass on without leaving to their descendants the stigma that " suicide while of unsound mind " brings ? All possible securities as t•.1 publicity and spontaneousness would be easy to arrange.—