Legalising assisted suicide would open a ‘Pandora’s box’ and lead to ‘horrible consequences’, a senior Roman Catholic Archbishop has said. Archbishop Antonio Mennini explained that the ‘reality’ of assisted suicide should be revealed, as he warned that the change could lead to further attempts to weaken the law. The House of Lords is set to discuss the issue when it debates Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill. Archbishop Mennini, who has represented the Pope in Great Britain since 2011, said the ‘nice’, ‘politically correct’ term ‘assisted dying’ should be exposed. ‘But once we open this ‘Pandora’s box’ we know as well the horrible consequences that follow.’ He then gave the example of Belgium, which after introducing euthanasia in 2002 brought in child euthanasia earlier this year.