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    The median age of this group was more than 77. The vast majority – around 96% - had a death deemed “reasonably foreseeable”, due to severe medical conditions such as cancer.

    In the small minority of other cases, patients may not have been terminally ill, but sought an assisted death due to a long and complicated illness that had significantly impacted their quality of life.

    Ah yes, “abused” through being used exactly as designed.