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It is not just about people coming into the hospice to die; they can be supported well before that, and they may also come into the hospice on a day-case basis.
Even if someone is older and cannot pay their bills—our ageing population is a problem—at least they will not die of hypothermia if their house has some thermal storage.
Every day, three people in the United Kingdom are diagnosed with motor neurone disease and three die from it. In Scotland, more than 120 people are diagnosed with the disease every year and 120 people die from it.
I point out to Mr Balfour that I am very much a supporter of organ donation and, indeed, have opted in to make it clear that I am content for all of my body parts to be used after my death, if I die in such circumstances that they can be used.
I attended the ECCLR Committee and asked whether the industry can do anything once the disease starts to develop and the answer was to harvest the fish before they die from the disease. Does that hide the true extent of the problem?
It is at the very centre of the British Heart Foundation’s hearty lives prevention programme, which is driven by evidence that “People living in the poorest areas of the country are, on average, more likely to die from cardiovascular disease ... than people living in the richest.”
Terminally ill patients felt that they were being sent home to die, and clinicians and doctors felt that they were treating people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease completely differently from those with cancer, even though there was going to be a similar outcome.