Reading P A Bond's miserable musings (Letters, April 1) over life and death brought to mind James Stewart's marvellous film It's A Wonderful Life, in which he says to his guardian angel: "I wish I'd never been born."

Being trite, if Mr Bond had not been born, he would not have written his letter and I would not have seen it.

I am sure most of us, whether religious or not, would like to think that in our blink-of-an-eye existence in the grand scheme of things, we did, however small, leave our mark or make a difference.

-Tony Andrews, Lower Bevendean Avenue, Brighton