Before you say “He would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. When it comes to calls for euthanasia, I get it, I really do. A few years ago I was close to death. I had a severe case of Guillain-Barré syndrome and was totally paralysed from the neck down.
I was in terrible pain. I was powerless to feed or wash myself. I was a burden on others and didn’t want to be. I spent five months in hospital alongside others with conditions such as multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease who were not going to recover as I might. Some were heroic, some demoralised. So I came to understand why some people want early death for themselves or others. I know the humiliations and the temptations of serious illness. I hear the cry: “They shoot horses, don’t they?”
