Assisted suicide will become legal

I am desperately disappointed that the UK parliament has voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide. I believe this is wrong in principle but also it was rushed through without proper debate and scrutiny.

It is well known that a 6-month terminal diagnosis is an almost meaningless term and in practice anyone terminally ill could be included. As with our own experience here with similar legislation and across the world with assisted suicide laws, we know the safeguards will fall away. For the first time in our history it will be a licence for state sponsored suicide or killing people in all kinds of contexts and will profoundly change the relationship between carers, families and patients and send a message that the state does not want anyone to be a burden so they should get out of the way.

It feels now like the UK is a much less safe place to be unless you are healthy and positive about life.

The god of autonomy and self determination has been worshipped.

However, we trust in a sovereign powerful God and will continue to pray for the future debate of this bill that it may fail to make it to the statute book but if so, that more safeguards will added, and we will work to make sure everyone can die with the inherent dignity of being a human made in God’s image until they draw their final breath.

CARE have written an excellent longer article here