“There is a high likelihood that Catholic hospices and care homes will be required to be involved with assisted suicide if Westminster Parliament passes it. The future of many care homes and hospices will be put in grave doubt if the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill becomes law”. With these words, in a statement, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Primate of England and Wales, suggests the possibility that Catholic hospices and care homes in Great Britain may be forced to close down if tomorrow Westminster Parliament gives the final go-ahead to the End of Life Bill, as it is likely to happen. According to the new legislation, mentally competent adults who are terminally ill and expected to die within six months may ask to die if two doctors state they are entitled to end their lives and have not been pressured or coerced by anyone. The Bill was put forward on October 16^th and was approved on first reading in November with 330 votes for and 275 votes against. “Our Parliament has now rejected amendments that would have allowed such institutions not to be involved in assisted suicide”, Cardinal Nichols writes on. “So, the mission and values of our institutions might be defeated by the new legislation. In the vast majority of jurisdictions in which assisted suicide has been legalised, care homes and hospices have been required to facilitate it, so this is very likely to happen in the United Kingdom as well”.