A record number of 122 peers spoke in the debate, which lasted for nearly ten hours. Opening the debate, Lord Falconer of Thoroton asserted that opponents of the Bill were wrong and argued that the Oregon model has shown that the number of people who will choose to have an assisted suicide will be small, there will not be pressure placed on the disabled to end their lives, nor will they be made to feel a burden, because the Bill is restricted to those who are terminally ill, and the current law should not ‘just be allowed to continue’, on the grounds that it is inequitable, as only the rich can travel to Switzerland to have an assisted suicide.