Religious leaders ‘out of step with flocks’ on assisted dying, says UK rabbi

Romain said he had seen people in ‘great pain and suffering’ at the end of their lives in hospitals and hospices. Photograph: Colin Brooks

Religious leaders are “out of step with their flocks” in their opposition to assisted dying, according to a leading rabbi who has been appointed chair of the campaign group Dignity in Dying.

“The religious hierarchy is set against assisted dying, but the religious membership is not,” said Jonathan Romain, who leads Maidenhead synagogue in Berkshire.