Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Most all Christian sects ( however opposed they may be to suicide in and of itself ) are also opposed to maintaining one's life beyond normal measures via what is termed as artificial and or heroic means. IE: if a machine is required to keep you alive beyond a certain point and one's quality of life is grossly affected due too such a condition (as in cases where one is determined to be brain dead etc) then its perfectly acceptable to discontinue such means of preserving the body unnaturally and let the patient die.
I am not talking about most Christian sects, but the core of fundi Christians who have views on other people's behalf, and will do what they can to enforce them. Some of them (bishops) are in the House of Lords - automtically! - and can vote on many of these issues, but they cannot loose an election. What a system!

This is UK I am talking about, of course. They are Church of England, no other religious group has this kind of influence, including Catholics.

They are the ones who oppose the laws of assisted suicide, as they did laws of more religious freedom, because they thought it would limit the power of Church of England privileges.