Certainly, the requirement of consultation with family members is not part of the current regime. If I were eligible for medical assistance in dying, and I chose not to inform any members of my family, I am perfectly entitled to choose not to do that. Now, whether the physicians involved are prepared to provide medical assistance in dying in those circumstances is a different issue, because, of course, no physician is compelled to provide medical assistance in dying even if the individual is technically capable of meeting the criteria.
Therefore, I think that additional criteria is important. The thing Professor MacIntosh has been speaking about to some extent, which is something worth considering, is whether there are additional safeguards that are necessary in order to have a degree of confidence, and, potentially, whether the public has a degree of confidence that this really is the decision of the individual, fully informed with a full understanding of the implications of the process that was involved in order to do that.
While I don't personally support that, because I think the medical profession will deal with that appropriately, I can understand there may be an appetite in the public to see something like that occur.