Official Solicitor

The mother told the Official Solicitor - someone that acts for people who are vulnerable because of their lack of mental capacity in some courts - that her daughter might think there was a "magic pill" that would "make it all go away".

The woman is being represented by staff from the office of the Official Solicitor, who help vulnerable people embroiled in litigation.

She said Official Solicitor Sarah Castle had yet to reach a "final position" as to where the woman's best interests lay.

Sarah Castle, the Official Solicitor whose office helps vulnerable people in litigation, said the man should be allowed to die.

But the government's official solicitor has said her mother, Beverley Neal, who cares for her, cannot benefit from it.