A bill of law that wants to make euthanasia and assisted suicide legal is being worked at in New Zealand too. The selected Parliamentary Committee for Justice opened a survey to hear the opinions of New Zealanders about MP David Seymour’s bill of law on the “choice of end of life”. The country’s Catholic bishops, in a letter sent to the churches, called everyone to take part in the survey, because “it is powerful evidence, when the entire Catholic community rallies round a belief and an action: supporting the dignity of human life, which is key to our faith and is central to an inclusive, caring society”. The bishops’ website also shows a short video to explain what euthanasia is and is not. Eight New Zealander Anglican bishops, in a document sent to the Committee, state that such legalisation “will pave the way to many predictable and unpredictable consequences, which will damage people and society”, and ask that instead “more funds be invested to provide palliative care and support to patients and their families”. The Anglican document also says: “It’s ironic that, in a country affected by the most alarming rise in the number of suicides, especially among young people, we are thinking of helping people die”.