Euthanasia and the bishop
by Anglican Samizdat:
I am reposting this article because Andrew Asbil, the clergyman who participated in euthanising the couple, has just been voted the next bishop of the Diocese of Toronto.
I remember a time when for a church to be “prophetic” it had to stand against the tide of the culture, against the immorality of the state, against the prevailing delusions that beguile our impressionable egos. Not so today. Because same-sex marriage is legal, the church has embraced it and has assigned committees loaded with waffling liberal clergy to contort Scripture to their collective will. It is much the same for abortion. And now euthanasia.
On March 27 Mr. and Mrs Brickenden committed suicide together with the help of a doctor:
On March 27, George and Shirley died holding hands in their own bed in a Toronto retirement home.
Their children, who watched from the foot of the bed, say the couple drew their last breaths at almost the same moment.
They had been married for just shy of 73 years.
The Brickendens are one of the few couples in Canada to receive a doctor-assisted death together, and the first to speak about it publicly.
The local vicar was on hand, perhaps to deliver a sermon in hope of hastening the couple’s exit:
Present were Pamela, Saxe and Angela, their spouses, the two doctors and Andrew Asbil, the Dean of Toronto’s St. James Cathedral, who later told me he had “without hesitation” supported the couple’s wish for their funeral to be held at the Anglican church.
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