Professor Merete Nordentoft:

I just wanted to follow up on this with evidence. My main interest is suicide prevention and I have been working with suicide prevention for many years. One very well-established fact is that the people who attempt suicide often change their mind. Some do so during a very short timeframe, within maybe 24 hours. If we look at long-term follow-up, what we can see is that 10% die from suicide while the rest die from something else. This speaks to the fact that a lot of people will change their mind if they have the possibility. In that case, assisted dying removes the possibility of changing your mind. Of course, many suicide attempts are for the patient perceived as lethal but then, to their surprise or thanks to medical treatment, they wake up and often change their mind in a short time or later.

Additionally, I would like to mention that many patients change the threshold for perceiving a worthy life during palliative care.