Mr. John Wall:

I will help the Senator to do so right now. I talked about the latter stages of a terminal illness, which rules out many of those scenarios. Dare I say it? I do not like to use the word "scaremongering" but there is an element of it in some of the examples cited when in fact they would not even be applicable to a terminal illness. Even the name of this committee is the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying, yet I have heard the word "suicide" more often today than I have in the past six months. We are talking about assisted dying. If we mention the word "suicide", it is important to mention it in context. As I said in my opening submission, just throwing it out is very disrespectful to those who, unfortunately, have taken their lives by suicide in dramatically different circumstances. To help us all, context is everything. Sometimes we just need to take a step back and collectively bring the conversation back to where it started, that is, the end of life and terminal illness. If we need to take it from there that is okay, but if we keep citing examples and what-if scenarios, we will never get to an end point where we will be happy or where there will be collective agreement on a solution to the debate.