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Letter: Body and mind

Published 4 June 2014

From Richard Ellis

Celia Berrell has it the wrong way round when she says she will have finished with her body when she dies (17 May, p 30). As I see it, it is this body’s amazing ability to store memories that makes me. I am my body’s creation.

When the support system for memories breaks down, then we go. We no longer have a say. My wife has Alzheimer’s, I know of what I write.
Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire, UK

Issue no. 2972 published 7 June 2014

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