Dr. Simon Mills:

Once there is a proper discussion about this and the Deputy has heard from people on issues of capacity - it would be helpful to go back and listen to Dr. Campbell’s evidence because she was very good on it – there is a world of difference between having a psychiatric condition and lacking capacity. They can be separated out. It is then a question of pivoting and considering whether the person who just has a psychiatric disease and has capacity could consent to the ending of their life purely because they have a psychiatric disease. As Professor Huxtable said, I see the difficulties with going down that course because of the difficulties of setting limits to what is, if you like, an actionable psychiatric or psychological suffering as opposed to one that falls outside any legislation.