Lucinda Holdforth

I don't think that's realistic at all.

And we've had changes in legislation such as giving women the opportunity to have control over their fertility through abortion.

And at that time, everyone said, well, there's going to be mass murder.

It won't be that.

It won't be that at all.

And in fact, I suspect as someone who thinks...

I would like to have the option of voluntary assisted dying when I'm older, but it's very likely I wouldn't take the option.

And the reason is because I would just feel great having a little bit of agency and control in my old age.

I think what my mother and others, my father hated feeling helpless.

And that little last bit of control, I think, is wonderful.

So I suspect most people wouldn't avail themselves of that option.

But I think it's something we should discuss and be open to.

Well...

It's not, we discriminate on the basis of age already.

So young people can't vote and they can't drive to a certain age.

And the argument for that is that their brains aren't sufficiently developed to sort of take these responsibilities in hand, which you may or may not agree with.

Now we're very passionately anti-ageism in this country, anti-old ageism in this country, but we have to remember that even very healthy fit people at some point

will experience decline.

And the Medical Association says it's in what they call fluid intelligence, processing speed, problem solving, our eyes, our ears, and manual dexterity.

So we see the madness of this fetish against ageism in what's happening on our roads.