“The problem of anxiety requires a firm hope that is not utopia”, says psychiatrist Pablo Martínez.

The Spanish Evangelical Alliance says in a statement that the draft law is “in fact, an assisted legal suicide, wich does not respond to common situations of severe suffering”.

“Prioritising the decriminalisation of euthanasia over the provision of resources for palliative care is not a progressive policy, but the verification of a failure of the government and society”, the Spanish Evangelical Alliance says.

According to a new Pew Research survey, 80% of Americans believe in God, but only 56% say they believe in the God of the Bible.

The largest increase in euthanasia cases is among people that are not expected to die in the near future. Belgium is the first country in the world with no age restrictions for euthanasia.

We are often cranky and cynical already at a young age, aren’t we?

No-one can consider themselves too old to serve the Lord and others.

When we are young we think that we are going to live forever. Death is something that we never talk about.

A local church dedicates special service to honour the elderly in the community. “In Barcelona, there are 23,000 people over 85 living alone.”

What are our hopes and aspirations for old age - if God allows us to reach that point in life? None of us can escape the ageing process: Outwardly we are wasting away, but inwardly we are being renewed day by day.