Famed Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber considered Suicide and was Pro-Euthanasia, Now Publicly Opposing Both in the UK

Hilary White : Jul 23, 2014
LifeSiteNews.com

"What concerns me, and I suspect many others, is what floodgates would open? Does it create a culture where older people are a burden? In 20 years' time, signing off on the deaths of old people might not be taken as seriously as it is now..." -Andrew Lloyd Webber

(United Kingdom)—The House of Commons heard a hundred brief presentations on Friday discussing a proposal from Lord Falconer, supported by the euthanasia lobby, to abolish the criminal offense of assisting suicide. (Photo: Featureflash/Shutterstock.com/via LifeSiteNews)

One of the many presenters opposing the bill was a man considered one of Britain's most illustrious sons. Andrew Lloyd Webber. The global musical theater "wunderkind" was quoted by major British newspapers to admitting that during a bout of "deep depression" he had once considered suicide at Switzerland's notorious suicide facility.

Having been diagnosed with prostate cancer before undergoing back surgeries, he said he went so far as to request the forms from Dignitas.
"There were days when I thought that I would do anything to get out of this," he told the Daily Telegraph.

"I adore my work, and I thought that if I could not do that, then I had nothing more. I went through a moment of deep depression – that awful moment when you think that you must find a way out. I actually got the forms for Dignitas. With hindsight, it was stupid and ridiculous, but I couldn't think what to do."

"If people get to a point where their lives are so impossible, I would agree with the Bill," he said. "What concerns me, and I suspect many others, is what floodgates would open? Does it create a culture where older people are a burden? In 20 years' time, signing off on the deaths of old people might not be taken as seriously as it is now..."

Another opponent of the bill is oncology specialist Dr. Karol Sikora who told BBC's Newsnight that the bill could end up reducing doctors to "death squads," deciding who lives and who dies.