Miss B had the right to die and had no obligation to remain alive just to spare her doctors an unpleasant task, writes Mary Warnock

Mr Justice Silber, in arbitrating over Diane Pretty's bid for an assisted suicide, is doing his moral duty.

When Prince Charles, in his Reith lecture last year, rebuked biologists for drawing society into an area which "belonged to God and God alone", he drew a response from many confused and vaguely frightened people.

You can't order children to be moral. But you can teach them, and better still show them, says Mary Warnock, if you take the time to talk.