Mr. Lloyd Riley:

As I said, forcing people to undergo treatment is not an option and, therefore, I do not think that would necessarily come into it. In terms of seeking guarantees, prognosis is not, of course, an exact science. The research shows doctors are more likely to overestimate than underestimate. This question rests on a false premise that people who access assisted dying want to die. That definitely is not my experience of people who considered this choice or of bereaved relatives who know someone who has been through the process. Nobody is in a race to self-administer the medication in places where this is legal. They do not get to the day the six months expires and then take it. If people are well at that point, want to carry on living and, for whatever clinical reason, the prognosis was not quite accurate, they will carry on living and that should not be seen as a bad thing.