Hospices in the UK are warning of severe underfunding, leading to fears that if ‘assisted dying’ is legalised, it would lead to more terminally ill patients requesting it.
In July, a Private Member’s bill on assisted dying was introduced in the Lords, and CARE has warned that a ‘right to die’ would become a ‘duty to die’. The bill was introduced by Lord Falconer, who has been campaigning for legalising assisted dying for more than a decade.
Just days later, three London hospices – St Raphael’s Hospice, Princess Alice Hospice and Royal Trinity Hospice – called on the government to step in and help, saying their requests for more funding have gone unmet.
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 …