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Another increasing cause for accepting assisted death was revealed in the American Journal of Transplantation, which reported that people are increasingly doing so to enable them to donate organs to others. Imagine the situation of someone facing long-term disability, or even the death of a loved one who needs a transplant and cannot find a donor. What pressure might there be on a person who is terminally ill to give up their life that another might live? The Bill gives rise to the possibility that this will happen, as it has in other countries. Yet such a decision really is not a decision made freely. My expectation would be that in many circumstances, it will not be revealed as a reason why somebody wants to do it until the moment of death, and then there will be all sorts of complications and concerns, because the purpose of assisted dying is to die; the purpose of organ transplantation is to keep the body in a place in which the organs can survive until they are transplanted.