Professor David Albert Jones:

First, on the people who do not use the prescription is in the context of assisted suicide, that is, legislation where you take it yourself and not in the context of where the doctor does it.

In the latter context, we do not get this. I would have to look up the numbers on that. I would be happy to give them to the Deputy but they are much smaller. When the doctor does it, there is not the issue of holding onto it.

Regarding the culture shift and how we cope with the good news that we are living longer while trying to find ways to live longer better, I think the same issues are behind more people asking about assisted dying. They are also the same pressures which, if we introduce it, will lead to it being used inappropriately. All of the same pressures which are behind more people asking about it are reasons for thinking that once it is introduced, people will feel now that it is there, it has changed things and they need to consider it.