The Archbishop of Canterbury has joined UK Catholic leaders in warning that any governmental policy supporting assisted dying is "dangerous" and could lead to a “slippery slope” whereby more people could feel compelled to forcibly end their lives.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the first reading today of a Parliament Bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to end their lives, the head of the Church of England spoke candidly about his own experiences both with parishioners struggling with their parents or relatives and with his own parents in relation to the issue of more elderly or ill people feeling they have become a “burden" upon others.
