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However, if somebody has a life expectancy that may go on for who knows how long—we know we cannot predict prognosis—and they are requesting you to do something to them to bring their life to an end, then it is the person who is providing the lethal drugs who is consenting to do that at the request of the patient. The patient would then die much earlier than they would have otherwise. I really am concerned that there is a misunderstanding out there that, somehow, specialist palliative care providing good analgesia and symptom control is somehow masquerading as shortening life, because it is not.