Ending life humanely is a person’s choice

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the practitioner who helped give a peaceful and humane ending to many old, ill and suffering people by their own free choice, died June 3.

People should have freedom of choice about what they do with their private lives and affairs, as long as their actions don't endanger anyone or anything else. Speed; careless, drunk, distracted, aggressive, or-smart aleck driving; noise, assault, robbery, murder and many other things affect others and there should be law and enforcement on the above.

But going without a seat belt or getting doctor assistance to end the misery and suffering of one's own self who has no future except to be kept on life support with a bunch of tubes does not kill or injure anyone else. If some religious zealots think there is glory in their own suffering and want to spend their last days in misery, then they should have the right to do so. But I detest their efforts to force their perverted personal standards onto everyone else. What they're really afraid of is they'll feel guilty if most other people choose to go out of life and not suffer a slow and miserable death. They want everyone else to suffer with them.

I'm all for religion until it becomes tyrannical and controlling over other people's private and personal free choice. This is supposed to be America not a theocracy.

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compassionandchoices.org for more information.

Herman Lenz

Sumner