Yossi Feintuch: "Uvacharta ba-hayim" – on "Choose life" according to the Torah
All other Mitzvot may be surrendered then if fulfilling them are likely to bring about the death of the observer. As we can deduce then from that Levitical verse in our weekly portion the religion of the Torah is pro-life; one’s greatest accomplishment is not in dying like a Jew, but rather in living as a Jew.