An odd choice for an editorial!

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the closing moments should they not be helped to persevere in their lifelong goal, rather than be defrauded in a definitive decision by a faulty concept of decisional ability? Informed consent and freedom from duress or subliminal or liminal influence along with cognition, emotions, conscience and the enormous impact of a life lived over decades all come into play in crucial decision-making at life's closing moment (days, weeks, months). Capacity is only one of these many faculties (and not the most important) involved in late life decision-making. References 1 Shaw D, Trachsel M, Elger B. Assessment of decision-making capacity in patients requesting assisted suicide. Br J Psychiatry 2018; 213: 393-5. 2 Verhofstadt M, Thienpont L, Peters G-JY. When unbearable suffering incites psychiatric patients to request euthanasia: qualitative study. Br J Psychiatry 2017; 211: 238-45.

Summary report of the IAEA Consultants’ Meeting on Nuclear Data Forms and Observables for the Safe Monitoring, Characterization, Dismantling, Decommissioning and Disposal of Nuclear Fuel and Irradiated Material from Pile, Experiment, Facility and Nuclear Power Plant (MCDDD)

“…The results of a limited test are shown in Fig. 21, where the bell shape dependence for 25 Mg and 35 Cl supported the faster E dependence. The sharp decrease of the correlation curve for 27 Al above L > 4 is difficult to explain as well as the maximal correlation at L = 0.…”

“…The results of this analysis are shown in Table 6. This surprising observation was supported by the non-statistical behavior of M1 transitions in the capture spectra from two neighboring s-and p-wave resonances in the 35 Cl target [29].…”

“…But the PSF M1 data of these two nuclides look similar, which supports the idea that they represent the M1 strength shape in case where the low energy data are influenced by non-statistical effects. The thermal cross section of 43.6 b for the 35 Cl(n,) 36 Cl reaction is formed by a strong negative resonance close to the Q-value and a statistical nature is expected. This may explain the good agreement with the D1M + QRPA calculation which follows the CN model.…”

“…Fig. 2 Comparison of THC E1 and M1 strength from the Atlas_THC_f(L) database with the D1M+QRPA calculations (solid lines) [35]. In a few cases the shell model (SM; dotted lines) predictions at low energies are also given [3].…”

“…A very strong enhancement for 24 Na, which has a zero (n)(dp) correlation, presents a problem. In the 35 Cl case capture resonances strongly contribute to the cross section and the statistical behavior may than dominate, however, the strong (n)(dp) correlation is then a problem. The remaining three nuclides 40 K, 46 Sc and 52 V show no (n)(dp) correlation and semi-direct process enhancement is very unlikely.…”