Letters to the editor

Dying is all part of the "living" process.  Just like the sun rises and the sun sets, it's more a transition than a right. 

I look at assisted passing as a compassionate, unselfish act.

I don't endorse killing either, but I should have the right to choose if I want to live as a vegetable or not and put my family through what could be years of agony.

You should not have the right to make that decision for me.  Who's playing God now?

I would hardly define assisting a person to have a peaceful, painless passing a failed society. Quite the contrary, it is an act of mercy.

I don't see the pendulum swinging to allow murder to be committed without justification, as you say, because of it.  And why must religion come into it?

You may be a believer but not everybody is, including me.

If there is a loving God, then I would think he'd certainly not mind having one of his children go peacefully and painlessly at the hand of a compassionate physician.

So if you want to put your family through the agony of an extended dying process, you have that choice.

But don't lay a guilt trip on me with religion and don’t make that decision for me.

Corinne Broten