Dear Editor,
The following is an excerpt from an editorial by Will Ferguson (award winning author) (Calgary Herald). “We have emptied the asylums-but to what effect? The other extreme, after all, is equally fatal. Mental illness is real. It is not a “lifestyle”, it is not a “choice”. Those who would treat it as such run the risk of enabling the mentally ill to death, illness requires treatment. The great cruelty of mental illness is that it attacks the very decision