Rather predictably, Lord Carey of Clifton, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has popped up in the debate on assisted suicide to repeat a claim he made three years ago in the British Medical Journal that doctor-assisted death should be legalised because there is “nothing sacred about suffering, nothing holy about agony”.
His remarks comein a letter to MPsfollowing a meeting with Labour MP Kim Leadbeater whose Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be put to the vote at Second Reading on November 29. The letter is signed by other Anglican, Unitarian, and liberal Jewish leaders of the same mind. Even Islam is represented. The overall purpose is to demonstrate division among religious leaders, who for the most part are opposed to assisted suicide, and to create the illusion that one can be at the same time both devout and wish for a change in the law.
