Editor,
I am appalled at Carolyn Johnson's letter to the editor in Tuesday's Daily Lobo in response to an article titled "Assisting people in pain."
Using the Bible as a piece of factual information to support your every moral claim is preposterous. The Bible is a work of allegorical literature that has been translated numerous times throughout history and is interpreted by many different denominations in a plethora of ways.
One person's God is not my God, and is certainly not the rest of the world's God. Contending that assisted suicide is wrong in "God's eyes" only reveals one thing about Johnson - she is closed-minded and not open to any other belief system but her own.
For those of us who don't depend entirely on a magical deity floating in the sky and believe in taking responsibility for our own actions, simply trusting God to make the right choice for us is out of the question. Those in an endless cycle of suffering should have the right to choose for themselves if euthanasia is right for them.
Johnson should know that those volunteering at the Final Exit Network are aware of the moral dilemma they are participating in - they simply hold to a different and very admirable set of morals compared to Johnson and her religiously motivated convictions.
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Kristen Woodruff
UNM student
