That none of the 100-plus who have flown their relatives to a death clinic abroad have been prosecuted to date is said by Falconer to make the law an ass. On the contrary, it means that this sorry sample is ethically self-selecting and the law has been applied with discretion and compassion. The suicide lobby makes much of the queue of some 800 waiting to help their relatives die, as if that in some way justifies their case. We can only shiver at the prospect of what monsters might be released in those ranks when suicides can be assisted without the threat of prosecution.