A plea for Anglicans to oppose euthanasia was made recently by the Most Rev. Harry Goodhew, Archbishop of Sydney of the Anglican Church of Australia. In his address to the diocesan synod, the archbishop said, "It is important to maintain a society where life is valued, and where compassion and pity express themselves not in a lethal injection, but in care and medical practices which take people through the closing stages of life with dignity and without pain."