WITH reference to 'Thought for the Week', October 25, as a grieving mother, I feel that the Rev Dunning was severely lacking in thought when he penned his beliefs.

We, whose children and loved ones, are taken from us, so tragically, and suddenly, do not have the privilege, or comfort, of sitting with them, as they pass away peacefully, in hospital, or at home.

A knock on the door by police officers is usually our awakening nightmare.

In cases of tragic death, we are often unable to see our loved ones until one or two days after their death, some, never see their loved ones again.

What an insult to suggest that our flowers are routinely placed at the roadside. It is an agony, a despair, searching for answers, hoping that maybe their spirits has lingered long enough to know that they were found.

For your thoughts to be aired so soon after the death, and floral tributes are still visible to the young man who died tragically in the High Street, I find that to be totally insensitive.

Before you question the actions of grieving mothers, look back into the past, when the original, and most caring of all, Mother Nature, filled her fields with poppies, so that her thousands of lost sons would be remembered where they fell.

I sincerely hope that you too, will consider the implications, and consequences of the pain, and deep hurt you have brought upon families. What statement are you sending out!

MRS D L NEDIC, Harvington.