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deal wit!

Dear Editor: :

Kate Zimmerman’s Feb. 25 arti-
cle “Living. and Dying in North
Vancouver's Lions Gate Hospital
(LGH),” gave me great confidence
and a feeling of great gratitude.

Lam heartened to know that I
live in & community where our hos- -
pital holds the preservation of life
in such esteem when it seems fash-
ionable not to do so,

Congratulations to Dr. Werner
Boldt and his staff of palliative care
at LGH,

He is really living his hippocrat-
ic outh to maintain life as long as is
naturally possible.

’ My father died in this'ward after
along and courageous illnezs.

His pain was controlled in a
kind und sympathetic manner and
my children and 1 would not give
away those last few days when my
father verbalized his’ deepest fecl-
ings and thoughts about our family

and his attitude towards life and our
community.

I know from the way he fought
to live that he would not have had it
any other way,

He lived and died, and give an
exaniple of patient faith and wis-
dom to us all.

Our children have to learn that
we can't “kiss everything and make
it better.” Dying is a normal
sequence to life and should occur
naturally, not by physician-assisted
suicide.

in Holland where physician-
assisted suicide isibeen luw, they
are now trying to bring in involun-
lary-assisted suicide,

This means that;we no longer
have any say — our lives and
deaths are controfled’ by physicians
who make this decision.

Do we want that here?

Pat Battensby i
North Vancouver

It’s time to bust loose with
some Canadian patriotism

Dear Editor: |

‘Lam sure that most of your read-
ets have been exceptionally thrilled
by the fine performances of
Canadian.-athletes at the 1994
Olympic Games at Litehammer.

Regarding this, there was one
thing that was particularly enlight-
“ening. ©
-.. Tam referring to the: great enjoy-
ment and enthusiasm our athletes
“showed each time they were on the
podium’ and in subsequent’ inter-
views having performed well for
-* Canada.

‘This outward display of puatrio-

tism was indeed good to see-and it
forced me to wonder why, if our
top athletes can be so proud to per-
form so well for Canada, is patrio-
tism in this country not promoted
more in our schools and amongst
our immigrants? ;

_If this is such a great country,

then we should be proud of it and

not keep patriotism under wraps.

In oar national anthem are the
words, “We stand on guard for
thee.”

| wonder how many would, |
John S. Fawell
West Vancouver ;

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Doug’s film
view backed

Dear Editor:

{ts not surprising that
columnist Doug Collins has
raised the hackles of the
Jewish community with his
strong critique of the film
Schindler's List, and his char-
acterization of that film as pro-
paganda rather thaa the nan-
fictional documentary the
entertainment and news media
would have us believe it is.

However, surely Adum
Rabiner, in criticizing Collins
(North Shore News Mailbox,
March 30), caunot expect to
be taken seriously when he
accuses Collins of slandering
what Rabiner calls the “so-
called Jewish influences’ in
Hollywood and the media.”

Since Rabiner’s stalement
appears to deny the existence
of such influence, he should
acquaint himself with former
PBS film critic Neal Gabler’s
book:

An Empire of Their Own:
How the Jews Invented
Hollywood to Begin With,

Then Rabiner would do

well to recognize that Jewish |

ownership of major American
media outlets such as the New
York Times, Washington Post,
the television networks, and

publishing houses is perva-'

sive.

The fact is, the North
American Jewish community
does wield substantial influ-

‘ence in the entertainment and
. news media, and with that

power comes a responsibility
to present even-handed
accounts of world historical
events, which ate not always

_dudeocentric in scope.

Brian Renk
Vancouver

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