Editor:
Re: A struggle for power (editorial, Optimist, Feb. 11)
Just your opening sentence does not make any sense.
There is no sad and shocking struggle for power and control. It is a government usurpative desire to be in absolute control of people's lives to the death. It is a one-sided attack on the management of the facility, built with money many citizens donated. It is an unprecedented desire to convert the palliative care facility into a place where people can be killed as if there are not enough places where such a drastic act of ending one's life can be legally done.
It is a frontal attack by the government with all the power and might on a facility built with people money and run by volunteers who care to provide palliative care to those who wish to end their life naturally.
I agree where you say that, “It is simply deplorable what has happened to a facility that has had, up until this past year or so, been a remarkable place of care and support.”
You are correct. It been a remarkable place of care and support before the bloodthirsty government decided to impose its power on this group of virtually powerless people who have been running this facility flawlessly and to the satisfaction of its residents, their families, and friends.
Unfortunately, you are either ignorant of that facility or you know of it from people who want to convert it into a place of killing, not caring for its inhabitants. Otherwise, you would not write the following: “Some say a glowing reputation has been ruined by a board that wants to ignore what is right for their selfish gain and ideologies.”
Only an ignorant could say something like that. What selfish gain and what ideologies are you talking about? I am guessing you do not even know.
I have lived in Ladner for over 30 years, not like you who has come here just a few moments ago. You have no understanding of the recent Ladner history including a well-run palliative care facility which has been valued so highly and appreciated by many who have been in its care for all those years.
I would suggest that you do your homework better, listen to both sides of the issue and then make your qualified stand.
Ivan Filippov
