In response to W. Neufeld's most absurd opinion in Friday's Citizen, I would like to express my opinion that a person's life is their own, what they do with it is up to them, what they pursue in regards to happiness is their choice, and what they do or don't is solely up to them.
I don't imagine the above stated individual would enjoy being known as a pro-slavery man. Surely they would agree that a person's life and what they do with it is their own. I'm sure this person and the rest of us would be filled with outrage at the thought of someone else deciding what pastimes were legitimate pursuits of happiness.
Why then, W. Neufeld, do you think it is okay to oppress with your opinion the most important and integral part of a person's freedom: the right to die?
Calling anyone and everyone who advocates assisted dying an 'extremist' merely shows their extremism in this matter.
The comparison to Hitler illustrates clearly their tendency to exaggerate wildly where it suits them. As a rule, you don't get to decide if a person lives or dies. That is solely the business of the person in question. Calling people selfish for wishing to die cannot be done without selfishness on the part of the one who condemns them.
Stop trying to decide this issue for everyone else within your own limitations, beliefs, and personal biases.
The world is progressing, and if you aren't willing to budge from your static worldview, then at least have the common decency not to whine about it when you get trampled underfoot by the unstoppable progress of humankind.
If you're not interested in assisted dying for yourself, then go live your life on your own terms, as I do in mine, and stop trying to trump the rights and happiness of others with your nonsense.
Scott Harris
Prince George
