MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - The...
people commit suicide so as not to burden their near and dear with worries. Each person is creating his own reference frame," the patriarch said.Baroness Mary Warnock, a British philosopher, said in an interview with the Church of Scotland"s magazine Life and Work in 2008: "If you"re demented, you"re wasting people"s lives - your family"s lives - and you"re wasting the resources of the National Health Service."
"I"m absolutely, fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there"s a wider argument that if somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they"re a burden to their family, or the state, then I think they too should be allowed to die," she said.
On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI drew upon similar themes on the second day of a pastoral visit to the Czech Republic, urging the whole of Europe to remember its Christian roots.