To the editor:

The USAToday article of Aug. 10 dealing with the right to die law in Switzerland sounds a lot like the pro-choice folks who think that they should be able to decide about the fate of their baby without government interference.

The article’s subject was a woman who was not ill but was afraid of aging (something a baby doesn’t do). The woman’s logic makes sense to me biblically because of the way the Bible contrasts an aging “natural” person versus a believing Christian or Jew (read Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 vs. Psalms 92:12-15).

Also, the difference for a Christian is that they understand that Christ’s death has taken the sting out of death which is sin. Christ died for our sins, hence, we do not have to fear the consequences of sin that an unbeliever should fear (see I Corinthians 15:56 and John 3:18-19). The believer will live in the house of the Lord forever; the unbeliever will be condemned to the Lake of Fire. Now that is something to fear.

The Swiss criteria for allowing suicide is incomplete since it says the person must be mentally and physically capable. Note they leave out the third dimension of our being, the spiritual. For the unbeliever, this is acceptable (but not for the believer) because they reject the notion that we have an eternal dimension, i.e., when you are dead, that’s it, nothing more. Haven’t most of us seen what happens when a living being’s spirit leaves the body? Then you are dead, but not your spirit and soul.