No one could know whether such people were acting mainly out of concern that the "burden" of caring for them be lifted from those close to them.I remain convinced that the compassionate choice is not to change the law, but to do all we can to enable people to die in their own homes whenever possible.JOHN HOLDENASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, GREATER MANCHESTER Sir: The key point about David Cameron's rapid rise to stardom is simple. If the Bill comes into effect then in due course, maybe many years down the line, there will be a sure step from voluntary assistance to die, to involuntary.DR MARK HARNEYHAWARDEN, FLINTSHIRESir: Despite Lord Joffe suggesting his proposals be limited to doctors prescribing lethal drugs for patients or others to administer, this would still be a "right to die" for patients sanctioned by those whose duty is to care for them.As a GP I frequently meet people who are frail, chronically ill and frightened They usually consider themselves a burden to others A "right to die" would easily come a duty to die. I see families becoming worn out night after night as the patient lies in a slowly deteriorating condition, asking me how long it will be. Doris, in allowing me into her bedroom to attend to her would view me in a completely different light: would she wonder what was in my syringe as I alleviate her pain and nausea? What sort of GP/patient relationship would there be then?

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A change in the law would put undue pressure and influence on the dying person to speed things along.

I fail to see how a patient of mine, let's call her Doris, will continue to see me as her trusted medical carer when word reaches her that her old friend from bingo, Mavis, was "put to sleep" the week before by someone from a medical team in the area. Sir: I await the deliberations of our representatives in Parliament regarding Lord Joffe's Bill on "assisted dying" with trepidation and no little anxiety ("Williams defends Church stance against euthanasia, 10 October"). I have been a family doctor for the past 10 years and deal regularly with the terminally ill. Mr Crisp points out that etiquette is merely a bundle of rules of behaviour with no intrinsic virtue, whereas,"manners are the way to achieve what we want without having to behave like a swine".You have not answered my question I am so sorry. The answer is that it is not bad manners for the author to have stolen the title, but it is bad manners for their publisher not to have checked that there was not already a book with that name.Of course, the publisher might have checked, found the name and liked it so much that he "borrowed" it The same thought had occurred to me But I was too polite to mention it.Thank you very much Not at all Thank you It was a pleasure I so enjoyed it .. More from Miles Kington.

In the 1990s there was a very good book by John Moles on the business cultures of the different countries in Europe It was also called Mind Your Manners.Oh dear. And what about the book by the butler, Mr Davoren, Manners from Heaven? I regret to say Mr Davoren has, I am sure inadvertently, "borrowed" the title from none other than the great Quentin Crisp, who wrote a book called Manners From Heaven - A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour.Is it not extremely bad manners for all these writers on etiquette to steal titles? Oh, you must not mix up manners and etiquette. I think it is a blunt American expression, meaning "shut up". You raise your palm to the person blethering away at you and say: "Talk to the hand, because the face ain't listening."Then why has Lynne Truss written a book about manners using a rude title ? I imagine it is so she doesn't duplicate another book title.But there is already a book out by cartoonist Gary Trudeau called Talk to the Hand! I imagine Lynne Truss was unaware of it Similarly with Robert O'Byrne ... And Thomas Blaikie has just produced Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners. So would it be polite to suggest to Lynne Truss that she has missed the boat? Very impolite. It is the height of bad manners to suggest to any writer that their oeuvre is less than perfect.Well, could I ask her at least what the title of her book means, Talk to the Hand? Is it another obscure expression concerning a panda? No.