Two lessons from the assisted suicide debate

Like many Christians and indeed others across the nation, I was saddened to hear the news that the UK parliament voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide.

As Christians, we are not opposed to the withdrawal of life-extending care, but we are against the active murder of anyone. Fundamentally, we believe that every life is sacred and unconditionally valuable - human dignity is not something we assign to ourselves and can then take it away when faced with illness, poverty, or disability.

The intrinsic dignity of a person

The bill claimed to give greater dignity to those wanting to end their lives, but it would in fact take away the inherent dignity of being human and make terminally ill patients feel unwanted and uncared for.