To The Daily Sun,
Your Nov. 7 edition published a letter from James Veverka in which he castigates a previous writer for setting the rules that "our lives are gifts from God, and only He has the right to take them back." This was within the context of the news report that Brittany Maynard had moved to Oregon specifically to end her own life peacefully on her own terms, rather than suffer a period of pain before God took her "back."
I am with Veverka on this issue. The person who insists only God can take a life is practicing his faith, and I have no quarrel with that. But his faith does not overrule and take precedent over my faith — or Maynard's faith. To each his own, and I vehemently protest any one faith being supreme over all others.
That is not the American way.
Bob Longabaugh
Alton Bay
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