Anglican Report on Dying Now Available to Public
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- Date
- 1980 April 25
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Toronto, Apr. 25, 1980 -- For immediate release
- The long-awaited report of the Anglican General Synod's Task Force on Human Life titled, "Dying: Considerations on the Passage from Life to Death," is available to the general public.
- The report, which has been the centre of major controversy for three years, and has gone through several revisions, is now published in its final form. The co-editors of the report were Dr. Lawrence Whytehead of Winnipeg and the Rev. Canon Paul Chidwick of Windsor.
- "As has been said during those three years, and must be repeated again," said Archdeacon Harry H. Hilchey, the Church's General Secretary, "this is not a policy statement, it is a discussion paper. It will provide for Anglicans, and indeed many other Canadians, constructive assistance in grappling with the vital moral questions being raised by advances in technology and science. Also, it will give much-needed leadership in a critical examination of the manner in which we treat and minister to terminally-ill persons."
- A copy of the report can be seen at Diocesan Synod headquarters. Copies may be purchased soon at retail outlets across the country or may be ordered now from Anglican Book Centre, 600 Jarvis St., Toronto M4Y 2J6.
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- For further information, please contact:
- R.J. Berryman
- Media Officer
- The Anglican Church of Canada
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- Toronto, Ont. M4Y 2J6
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- Subjects
- Dying : considerations on the passage from life to death
- Anglican Church of Canada. Task Force on Human Life
- Death - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Euthanasia - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Bioethics - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Whytehead, Lawrence (Lawrence Layard), 1914-2005
- Chidwick, Paul Field, 1930-2007