Dr. Andrew Lyne:

Older people can be vulnerable. It is also important to recognise that older people very much have their will. It is important that we respect them and that they retain capacity until they lose it. We have to presume they have capacity. To go back to the Deputy's initial question about delivering a eulogy, I would say very little about a person's assisted dying because I would talk about their life and hoe much they loved life. It is not so much that the people who want assisted dying want to die; they just do not want to endure unnecessary suffering at the end of their life. In a eulogy, I would talk about the person's life and at the end, I would simply acknowledge the fact that we were able to agree to their last wish and desire on this earth and that we were able to give them that final choice, and support it and respect it.