WelCom November 2024
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has warned people to ‘be careful what you wish for’, as British MPs prepare to debate a new bill to allow assisted suicide. The Cardinal said he feared that a ‘right to die’ would inevitably become a ‘duty to die’ and that pressure would build on the vulnerable to end their lives to ease the burden on carers or protect an inheritance. ‘The radical change in the law now being proposed risks bringing about for all medical professionals a slow change from a duty to care to a duty to kill,’ he said.