I am responding to the Jan. 9 letter to the editor by William Vaughan Jr.: “Responses to Alzheimer’s unpleasant but necessary.”
Commenting on the possibility of genetic transmission of Alzheimer’s disease, he describes what sounds like a national breeding program for humans as “one possible solution to part of the problem.”
Then he goes on to say: “Past a certain point in the development of the disease, a person may no longer exist as a person per se. Does it make sense to keep such beings alive at great cost?”
From 1991 to 1996, my mother was one of the people to whom Mr. Vaughan is referring so coldly. I have two tough but fair questions for him: Was he alive during World War II? If so, whose side was he on?
Christopher Brent
Kennebunk
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