It's a fair point that a George Best assaulted a police officer - you have me there. But you stated that Best "slapped people around". People, last time I checked, means more than one person. Until you can state another person that Best was convicted of assaulting your point is still libelous. It may be a mute point to most of Random Acts readership, but the Law has been argued over smaller details. I think there are very few people describing Best as a saint. Flawed genius, great footballer, drunk, waster - all of the above. I don't know of anyone knocking on the doors to the Vatican at the moment. I'd agree with most of your readers comments. It was a waste of a Life and I would have liked Best to have respected it more. I wanted to see him play into the twilight of his career with the vigour he showed at the start; and I would have like him to die peacefully in his old age. It didn't happen and life is crappy like that. What hurts is that this is a readership that, and I may be wrong, is taking an interest in our profession (I am a tech) because I imagine they have an interests in the work we do caring for people who call us sometimes at their lowest ebb. To hear people saying that anyone, regardless of who they are, doesn't deserve to have everything done to help them and reading between the lines - deserves to die, makes me wander about the decency of humanity, and certainly the decency of the readership. I went to a girl today who had overdosed on paracetamol. This will do the same thing to your liver in a few days that George Best did in a life time to his through drink. I don't think there are any of you out there that would have the balls to tell this girl the same things, with the same rancor that you write about George Best. They have the same problem - they are two people struggling to get to grips with Life. Martyn