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I WAS depressed enough, given the news of impending rises in the prices of gas and electricity, the threat of global warming, the war in Iraq and rumours of Armageddon. Now Patricia Murray claims that, according to an unscientific survey, it doesn't matter how much botox I've had, how I've toned my biceps and kept my cholesterol down, because there isn't a day goes by that I don't "feel afresh the embittered residue of having been sent out to pasture and relegated to the pension playpen where things just aren't quite as much fun as it appears from the outside."
Has she no crumbs of comfort and solace to offer us poor humiliated pensioners?
Access to a clean and wellmanaged nursing home or hospice? The grace of a happy death?
Seeing that, even though our sharpness of memory and general acuity is reduced, we still have a degree of emotional intelligence and acquired wisdom, would she condescend to share more fully with us the details of her 'unscientific survey' and outline the parameters of the expert information given her by the Psychological Society of Ireland?
Peadar McCann, Retd.
Douglas, Co Cork.
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