Pasterfield et al, looking at GPs' views on changing the law on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, end with a question.1 Why are most GPs opposed to changing the law whereas patients largely are seen to support such a measure? To this I would add a further question. Why are a larger percentage of palliative care doctors opposed to such a change than GPs?2,3 If one sees these two questions as being linked, …