Compassion or consumerism? | Current Debate | Theos think tank -> Euthanasia: compassion or consumerism?: People of faith feel instinctively that there is something disordered in helping or encouraging another human being to die. We will seek justification for that instinct in the catch-all and rather vague phraseology of “the sanctity of life”, an expression that is thrown back in our faces by euthanasia lobbyists, who have also misappropriated the word “dignity”.
So we must say what we mean. And it is this: We believe that everyone, without exception, is made in God’s image and that means that no life, however physically diminished or materially deprived, is worth less than another. That principle enjoys its recognition in the way we nurture, cherish and comfort those who have come to depend utterly upon the able-bodied.
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