Mr. Lloyd Riley:

The other inaccurate thing being said is this equation of suicide and assisted dying. That is simply not true and it is why suicide is not recorded as the cause of death in places where this is legal. There was a suicide in my family about 15 years ago. I know how those events can tear through people's lives in the way Professor Binchy described. The research on grief from bereaved relatives whose loved one has had an assisted death is quite different. It shows there are lower levels of complex grief and lower levels of post traumatic stress disorder. We really need to start pulling these issues apart. I am not unreasonable, I know why they brush up against each other, but when one zooms in they are very different.