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Sir, — “Everybody takes everybody for granted. People don’t take a close look at what is happening in other people’s lives sometimes until it is too late.” This comment was made by a United States coroner in an inquest into the suicide of a 13-year-old boy who had wanted to help his mother by ensuring that there was "one less mouth to feed.” This is the other side of the coin to the Reagan success story in America. At what cost do the wealthy prosper? T. R. Loudon, who advocates the cutting out of all benefits in New Zealand, should ponder the implications of his suggestions, and put himself in the shoes of those unable to make it in the dog-eat-dog world we have been building. — Yours, etc., JILL WILCOX. September 8, 1984.
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