When we were asked to testify, we were asked to comment on specific areas that we felt were in need of revision. In as a thoughtful a way as we could, we gave you two options. You've declared a third. Our point on this would be that we believe that if you add one or other of our options....
The first one “whether or not death is imminent” would be consistent with the first point you made. It's not inconsistent with the notion that we want to broaden this beyond the time of death being in short sight.
In the alternative, if you wanted to delete the entire paragraph, there would have to be some commentary replaced with something. Again, I want to emphasize that our objective is to make it easier for physicians to participate. We seek clarity so that physicians are comforted that they're doing the right thing to provide access, that they're not in contravention of any statute.