A similar campaign to change the law in Scotland was defeated in 2010 by 85 votes to 16. Not only Parliamentarians but the British Medical Association, the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Surgeons and General Practitioners; the Royal College of Anaesthetists; and the British Geriatrics Society remain strongly opposed to any legal change. Is this because they are all in favour of suffering and pain? 95% of Palliative Medicine Specialists -- these are the people who care for dying patients day in and day out -- are opposed to a change in the law. Are they all uncaring? The Association of British Neurologists warn that severe depression will lead to cases of assisted dying and that a law which says two doctors can determine such cases will offer few safeguards. Do they have no understanding of either patients or law? And what of disabled people? Baroness (Jane) Campbell, who has spinal muscular atrophy, who is a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission says: "I and many other severely disabled people will not perceive your support for euthanasia as an act of compassion but one founded in fear and prejudice." Do we have a better understanding of how disabled people view euthanasia than the organisations which represent them? Repeatedly -- and in the light of cases like that of Tony Nicklinson -- rational people have asked the question whether is it possible to allow euthanasia for a determined few without putting much larger numbers of others at risk -- and