{"id":131991,"date":"2024-10-16T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131991"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:03:43","slug":"the-archbishop-of-canterbury-warns-against-legalising-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131991","title":{"rendered":"The Archbishop of Canterbury warns against legalising assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;<em>\u00a0legalising assisted suicide would disproportionately impact many millions of vulnerable people, who might perceive themselves as a burden on those around them and the health service. My concern is that once you can ask for assisted suicide, it soon becomes something that you feel that you ought to do. Permission slips into being duty. This does not represent true choice for all, and I worry that no amount of safeguards will ensure everyone\u2019s safety at the most vulnerable point of their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A good death and compassionate care should be available to everyone, but the Bill being introduced today will not achieve that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/about\/meet-justin-welby\/archbishop-justins-priorities\/archbishop-canterbury-warns-against\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not half. <br><br> Assisted Dying Legislation is &#39;Dangerous&#39; says Archbishop Welby &#8211; BBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NhK26S8S9c\">https:\/\/t.co\/NhK26S8S9c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erica Wooff (@ericauk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericauk\/status\/1846496099139268689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00a0legalising assisted suicide would disproportionately impact many millions of vulnerable people, who might perceive themselves as a burden on those around them and the health service. My concern is that once you can ask for assisted suicide, it soon becomes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131991\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,382,103,175,67,389,438,199,168,114,96,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-justin-welby","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131995,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991\/revisions\/131995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}