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When a person makes an altruistic kidney donation, all the staff repeatedly ask the person face to face, before they go into surgery, what they are doing and whether they understand the consequences. All the consultations which precede the donations are done face to face for obvious reasons. If those requirements exist to ensure that a person is acting without coercion and in full understanding of what they are doing when they undergo the surgery, surely it would be essential that a person who is contemplating ending their own life with assistance is protected by carefully conducted, professional, face-to-face consultations, which can be arranged in a location in the UK which is convenient for the patient but which should never be conducted on video.