A comment on two letters:

The first letter, “Stories of life and death on front page of paper” (Star-Advertiser, May 29), was insulting, as it suggested those who seek assisted suicide just don’t pray as much as Amanda Eller.

Did Eller survive her ordeal with physical determination, or with the help of supreme beings? I cannot say. Thankfully, she did survive.

Unfortunately, people with agendas want to simply focus on Eller’s expressions of “the power of prayer” as her salvation. Do drowning people die because they don’t pray sincerely enough?

The second letter, by contrast, wants to “Offer aloha to those nearing end of life” (Star-Advertiser, May 29). This shows two stark contrasts on the view of what we choose: Hope or acceptance of our fate?

Fact: Many religious people die every day, despite praying not to die.

Should I or a bedridden cancer patient choose to suffer in extended pain and humiliation because some believe that “all life is precious in God’s eyes”?

No thanks, for me.

Sean Goodspeed

Ala Moana

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