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Using the same ratio, in Scotland, it might be that, for 15,000 people who die every year, air pollution has made some contribution to their dying earlier.
He has championed that cause through ill health and has not let the flame or the cause of justice die. I know about the issue because of my Renfrewshire connections—we debated it in the Renfrewshire Council chamber and all the parties agreed.
Together we cannot—and should not—accept the inappropriate housing that many families have to make do with; the deep-rooted health inequalities that mean that some people will die years before others just because of their postcode; and a system that fails to realise the potential of so many young people on the basis of their family income and living circums...
We also heard that, on average, socially isolated individuals are twice as likely to die prematurely and that they make poor choices on, for example, inactivity, smoking, alcohol use and diet.
They all play a vital part in ensuring that people can be cared for at home for as long as possible, and can die there if that is their preferred place of death.
As Nigel Don has pointed out, the bill seeks to address the situation—say, an accident—in which two people who are each other’s beneficiaries die at the same time or in which it is unclear who died first.