It was "setting the goal too high" to say that treatment was futile unless it had a real prospect of curing or at least palliating the life-threatening disease or illness.
And legal practitioners have at times suggested procedures to palliate the somewhat burdensome and often slow legal notification process, particularly where the debtor is based overseas.
By having generated this fear, campaigners are optimistic that governments must now be seen to be actually doing something that will palliate public concerns and fears.