First of all, I want to speak in English for a second, just for the sake of clarity. I want to express the appropriate compassion for the person in that circumstance. I can't imagine it. My grandmother was lost to Alzheimer’s. I had to go visit her in a long-term care facility. For 15 years she suffered, and it was horrible. I can't imagine that circumstance.
What I would say to her is that we have to work through these issues very carefully. I'm so sorry for her suffering. The ability for people, as you say, to have determination over their own fate is essential, but one of the challenges with advance requests is that you are talking about a future date in which you are not living. I can tell you that I had no idea what it would it be like to be 50 years old. When I was a kid, I had many ideas of what it would be like. When you live an experience, it's totally different.
When you make a decision for a future self that you do not know, and for circumstances that you do not understand, there is a complexity to that. That's what I'm trying to convey. For anybody to imagine the situation that they would be in in the future, to consign themselves to a fate of death when they don't know what they will be feeling and thinking in that moment, is complex. We need to work through it carefully.
When you get into families and how families will feel about those things—