Dr. Kevin Yuill:

That is at the heart of the matter. It is very interesting. It is about suicide. Our question is that we prevent suicide because we assume that individuals' lives are of value. They may not have the right perception of the value of their lives. It is right that we prevent suicide and do so on the same basis that the law should remain against assisting somebody to die. For instance, there is no question but that there could be some suicides that are entirely justifiable. There are individual cases where somebody dying before they might die naturally is a good thing. I do not think any of us have any problems with that. It is the principle that is very important. The principle of assuming somebody's life is valuable and assigning value to that life means we do not take these lives. We continue with the idea that "Thou shalt not kill", which is, of course, in the Bible but which is something that is valuable for us atheists as well as Christians.