Death is a topic we should be more willing to discuss, and we need to accept that there comes a point when it is inevitable, according to the lead bishop for this weekend’s Day for Life.
“We need to recognise that there’s a moment in life when treatment is no longer going to be effective and we have to accept we are going to die,” said Westminster auxiliary John Sherrington.
On Sunday more than 300,000 postcards will be distributed to parishioners in England and Wales offering thoughts which can help guide us all at the end of life. The answer, said Bishop Sherrington, was that we should love life, and understand that it is wrong to hasten or bring about death, but also that we need to accept that there is no obligation to pursue medical treatment when it no longer has any effect, when it harms the patient, or when the risks or burdens of the treatment outweigh the likely benefits.
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