I write in response to Jim Cox’s recent letter on assisted suicide (“Assisted suicide isn’t heroic or newsworthy,” The Herald, Sept. 15).
Mr. Cox is free to make personal choices based upon what the Catholic Church teaches.
Washington voters, in 2009, made the enlightened decision to give individuals more end-of-life choices. That was a good start. Not having effective options to prevent devastation of family finances and/or relief of suffering for extended periods is reprehensible. My heart goes out to those who endure a lingering life-ending or debilitating medical condition.
Washington state law should be made less restrictive.
Religious “authorities” of our day pontificate about personal moral choices. All the while the growing income disparity between the ultra-rich and the rest of us seems to be a forbidden topic of these experts. This is a good example, in a nutshell, of why I left organized religion.
Mr. Cox makes light of people living with horrific medical conditions who make a decision that does not agree with his belief system. Mr. Cox, I consider myself fortunate that I live in a state where your views do not control these difficult medical, financial and moral choices.
Arnie Knudson
Lynnwood
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