Is a right to death a natural right? How many of us actually choose the way we die? Some can. I am a diabetic and as such I can “dig my grave one mouthful at a time”, by choosing what I eat. I could choose to smoke and thereby choose a death of hypoxia as lung cancer destroys my ability to breathe. But who chooses to die by car fire? Who chose to be a murder victim? You may romanticize death. “Oh, he died in an ice fall on K2, but he died doing what he loved.” But was that really a choice?

The universality of death does not make it a right. All people are born too. Does that mean that all people have a right to be born? There are those that strongly disagree. Others, equally strongly affirm such a right. Death is part of being human.

I may choose one form of death over another, but my choice may not matter. Ultimately, in my belief system, an all knowing and loving god has chosen the time and place, the manner and methods he will use, to call me to him.

Who am I to force his hand?