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Finally, we are told that people who are dying are not committing suicide. The noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, has consistently said that suicide is different from assisted dying and that it cannot be assisted suicide because people who want assisted dying are already dying, and, therefore, they cannot commit suicide. That is more or less it: you are dying anyway, so you are not being driven by despair, but this is an active, positive choice—although we would not know that so far in the Bill because we are not allowed to ask about motives. None the less, you are driven by that.