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Seven reasons not to despair about the assisted suicide bill

Seven reasons not to despair about the assisted suicide bill

Lucy Honeysett
Lucy Honeysett

How do we respond to Parliament’s decision to progress a bill to legalise assisted suicide? We don’t despair.

God has heard our prayers, He is sovereign, and we approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need (Heb. 4:16).

Do you wonder what dying will be like for a believer?

Do you wonder what dying will be like for a believer?

Lucy Honeysett
Lucy Honeysett

As I entered the lady’s bedroom in her care home, I could tell she was in her final moments of life.

Unable to talk now and in a deep sleep, as I spoke her name, held her hand and told her I was here, she seemed to smile. There’d been many conversations about this moment, and we all knew her wishes. She wanted to remain out of hospital now and stay in her care home without an attempt of resuscitation so that she could have a natural, peaceful, dignified death.