After a New York Times columnist complained about a new law in Canada that allows people to have control over their own bodies and die if they want to die, I wrote this letter to the newspaper. As I expected they didn't print it so I'm going to send it here:
Ross Douthat is appalled that last year Canada allowed 10,000 of its citizens to legally end they're suffering and their lives and claims that is not civilized, but I say a law that requires somebody must continue to live when they want to die is as unjust as a law that requires that a person die when they want to live. Maybe they're making the right decision and maybe they're not, but it should not be up to you or me to make that judgment because it's their lives not yours or mine. And most of us feel that we human beings should have more rights than animals and should be treated better, and yet most would consider it "civilized" to end the agony of a terminally injured animal's life, so I don't understand why human beings shouldn't have the same rights that animals have. After this column I also don't understand why the New York Times continues to believe that Mr. Douthat's opinions are worth printing. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 7v3o -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3C-VjyKHm3AC9cA1LcA_sVGNdqqBaMUvR5ds1%3DNR03Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
