Your Letters
16:00 UK time, Wednesday, 3 March 2010
I've often wondered what those little domes were for...
Gordon Stewardson
Tony (Tuesday letters), the reason for this ludicrously tortuous language is that legally only a doctor can certify death. Other healthcare workers can only pronounce life extinct, not death. I know it's ridiculous but that's how it is.
Polly Saxon, Cornwall
In a previous life as a press officer for an ambulance service, the technical term is "to pronounce recognition of life extinct", but it's not a phrase that I ever would have used when giving details to the media.
JJ, Kingston, UK
Coming in a bit late to the discussion (also Tuesday letters), my parents swear they were once well acquainted with an army gentleman called Major Richard Head.
Jane, Manchester, UK
After reading about the man fined for walking his dog while driving his car, I need to know the make of car. Please let it be a Rover...
David Infense, Adelaide, Australia
I can't be alone in hoping that survives .
Fee Lock, Hastings
asks for scenarios onto which a newspaper could shoehorn the headline "Man Dog Bites". I would submit that , were he to bite someone, could feature in such a headline.
Mike Randall
Well, it goes like this: The Isle of Man is, in fact, the Isle of Dogs. Vicious dogs. Raving, uncontrollable dogs. So the folks there are quite used to the weekly round-up headline...
Clem Work
Or a vicious pro wrestler goes after his opponent's ear in unorthodox fashion.
Candace Sleeman
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