Dr. Stephen Duckworth:

People who are terminally ill with cancer are twice as likely to commit suicide. That is the current status quo. Introducing a change in legislation requiring the consenting physician and the independent physician to refer an individual for psychiatric support if they suspect there is a psychiatric relationship to the individual’s condition as a secondary problem for treatment would be enabling a better situation to exist with the advent of assisted dying legislation than currently exists for people without assisted dying legislation who are committing suicide as a result of terminal cancer.