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For my part, providing somebody with an assisted death, if properly safeguarded, is providing them with a good death if that is what they want. I certainly regard that as a part of what the National Health Service should be doing, which is providing people with the best death that they can have. For example, where somebody suffering from MND wants their artificial respiration to be removed, that is not a question of double effect; everybody knows that will have the effect of almost certainly bringing that person’s life to an end. That can, if that is what the person wants, provide the best death for that person.