Julie Selsberg, whose father suffered from ALS and starved himself to death last year at age 77, speaks to sponsors and supporters of the Colorado Death with Dignity Act at the Capitol last month. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
Re: “The pros and cons of Colorado Death with Dignity Act,” Feb. 3 letters to the editor.
A letter-writer told us the heart-wrenching story of her father’s agonizing seven-month decline before he died, and asked, “If a law can make assisted suicide legal, how will anyone learn patience through the difficulties of life?”
This is, of course, a false choice. People would still learn patience, lives would still have difficulties. On the other hand, for Colorado to mandate suffering of the terminally ill, to try to teach patience, seems absurd.
Doug Anderson,Littleton
This letter was published in the Feb. 7 edition.
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