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As it stands, even as amended, the Bill not only allows but requires such a person, although under 18, to be given the chance to discuss assisted dying, allowing them to have everything ready so that, as soon as they turn 18, if their diagnosis is unchanged and their life expectancy is less than six months, they can have a discussion about being assisted to die, as referred to in Clause 1. Had they not been facilitated in having preliminary discussions before 18, and so affirming their resolve to die, the person might well, with added maturity, decide differently. Therefore, I argue, and have already argued, that people are still too young at 18.