the Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0that he had dropped his long-standing opposition.<\/p>\n“The fact is I’ve changed my mind,” he wrote in a piece for the British newspaper.<\/p>\n
“The old philosophical certainties have collapsed in the face of the reality of needless suffering,” he explained.<\/p>\n
Carey said he would support the bill, brought by Lord\u00a0Charles Falconer, which would allow mentally capable adults to request help to die if they were suffering from a terminal illness and had less than six months\u00a0to live<\/p>\n
But the Church remains officially opposed to the legislation and has called for a public inquiry into the issue.<\/p>\n
The case of Mandela<\/strong><\/p>\nWriting in the\u00a0Observer<\/em>, Tutu said that he had asked his family not to prolong his life artificially, and criticised the treatment of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon,\u00a0during his final days.<\/p>\n“What was done to Madiba was disgraceful,” he wrote.\u00a0“You could see that Madiba was not fully there. My friend was no longer himself. It was an affront to Madiba’s dignity.”<\/p>\n
“I have been fortunate to spend my life working for dignity for the living. Now I wish to apply my mind to the issue of dignity for the dying,” Tutu wrote.<\/p>\n
The bill is due to be debated in the House of Lords next week.<\/p>\n
On Tutu’s comments, Falconer told the\u00a0Observer<\/em>\u00a0he was “really glad that someone of his stature is taking part in this important debate.”<\/p>\n“I very much hope that it will indicate that religion is not a bar to supporting this bill,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Church of England on Sunday called for an Royal Commission – a major\u00a0public inquiry – to be held on the issue.<\/p>\n
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South Africa’s Anglican Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu says he supports assisted dying for the terminally ill. Writing in Britain’s\u00a0Observer\u00a0newspaper on Sunday,\u00a0Tutu explained\u00a0that he had been convinced the humans had the right to decide on their own fate, after a\u00a028-year-old terminally ill South African took his own life because doctors\u00a0were unable to end his life. “Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n
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