A quieter life
■■ Sir,—After the Hillary Report, we should brace ourselves for an increase in preaching at the public by those who think they have a divine mission to do so. Our high rate of premature deaths is a better than usual excuse for secular preachers to prepare their sermons. The Health Department and certain
quangos should realise that the more the public are preached at the more our behaviour becomes self-destructive. The medieval church had the wisdom to remind us of our mortality only one day in seven and encourage the intensely religious into silent orders, thereby giving the public, and each other, a measure of peace. In combination with the nuclear threat, being continually harped at about our mortality generates despair which shows up as distracted driving, drug addiction, teenage suicides, divorces, etc. The Mental Health Foundation should limit the extent to which the public are bombarded about our mortality. — Yours, etc.,M. BURKE. August 3, 1987.
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