Letter to Editor- Assisted Suicide

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Dear Sir/Madam,

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I would like to make use of your column to express my opinion on …

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Yours faithfully,

Jocelyn Huang

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  1. Audience: general public
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  3. Don’t use second person “you” as it means you are addressing the editor
  4. Be objective, avoid “I”, use passive voice instead e.g. It is generally believed /said that… // The government has to / should … //    

        

Euthanasia

Writing Assignment 4:                                                                   Jocelyn Huang 3W (13)
Letter to the editor

To the Editor,

        Altercations on whether or not assisted suicide should be legalized have rang out through the world

and this topic has become one of the most popular questions of today. Ben Mattlin had written a cordial

article ‘Suicide by Choice? Not so Fast’ elucidating his stance to assisted suicide. As a terminally ill patient

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himself, he disapproves of the Death with Dignity law, and I agree with Ben Mattlin that there is haste to

assisted suicide, and thus I want to make use of your column to express my reasons why assisted suicide

should not be encouraged.

        Ben Mattlin’s article divulges precisely that disabled or lethally ill people do not have to designate

death to lessen the burden of their family and prove themselves exalted by their self-sacrifice. Not all

families would derive paying the heavy medical fees as an encumbrance. Firstly, the sick ...

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