A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury has said that there is a 'very strong compassionate case' for mercy killing.
Canon Robin Gill, a professor of modern theology at the University of Kent, insisted that people who help terminally ill relatives who are in great pain to end their lives should not be prosecuted.
He pointed to the case of Diane Pretty, who was terminally ill with motor neurone disease and fought a high-profile but unsuccessful campaign for the right to be helped to die. Prof Gill said: "There is a very strong compassionate case for voluntary euthanasia. In certain cases, such as that which involved Diane Pretty, there is an overwhelming case for it."
Last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, sent Prof Gill to a parliamentary committee investigating hearing Lord Joffe's private member's Bill on assisted dying for the terminally ill.
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