Brian Rix - No Farce.

Actor and learning disability campaigner Lord Rix has issued a plea for euthanasia to be legalised in order to allow him to "slip away peacefully".

In a letter to the Speaker of the House of Lords Baroness D'Souza, the 92-year-old Mencap president revealed he is suffering from a terminal condition and hopes Parliament will act "as soon as possible" to make it possible for people in his situation to be assisted to die.

Lord Rix voted against an Assisted Dying Bill which came before the House of Lords in 2006 because he feared that people with learning disabilities might become the unwilling victims of euthanasia.

But in his letter, he told the Lord Speaker: "My position has changed. As a dying man, who has been dying now for several weeks, I am only too conscious that the laws of this country make it impossible for people like me to be helped on their way, even though the family is supportive of this position and everything that needs to be done has been dealt with. Aol News.

For this Blogger, euthanasia has always been my most testing touchstone of what is right and wrong. I tend still towards the non-legalisation of euthanasia but just cannot see the loving Jesus I worship at the foot of the bed of someone He refuses to heal, uttering the words, ''Your intense, unbearable suffering is for the good of your soul."

My views switch on this matter periodically but here is something which may help:
Praying for the ending of a person's life is perfectly legitimate, and very often works, as I can testify. Both my Dad and Mum, at the very end of their lives were taken from us exactly five hours after I had prayed specifically for that outcome.
On those occasions when I have prayed in this manner for relief, in the majority of cases, the Lord has answered my prayers in the affirmative.