According to British organizations promoting death on demand, it has over 80 percent public support. And yet, six years ago, the pressure of circles opposed to the liberalization of these provisions was so effective that it was not possible for the British parliament to push through this law. As the primate of England and Wales said at the time, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, grassroots opposition played a key role in rejecting outrageous regulation.

The Catholic church superior, the Primate of the Anglican Community, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Secretary General of the British Muslim Council expressed their concern in an official letter to the House of Lords. British courts are increasingly struggling with cases brought by people demanding death at the hands of the doctor.

In November last year, 49-year-old Phil Newby lost an appeal in the Supreme Court, in which he applied for lifting the ban on assisted suicide – he suffers from an incurable disease of neurons, as a result of which his body is gradually paralyzed. In issuing its verdict, the Supreme Court stated that “this is not a proper forum for discussing the sanctity of life.”

Source: pch24.pl