The focus in Carter was on suffering; it wasn't on a timeline. The organization was an intervenor before the court in Carter. We were not involved in compiling the record of evidence, so it's been a while since I've examined it closely. But my understanding is that Ms. Carter, for example, whose daughter and son-in-law were applicants, was suffering from a disease that would not have lent itself to that kind of characterization: that death was reasonably foreseeable in any sort of proximate way.
The fact that the court was examining that among other specific cases and found a right under section 7 of the charter to medical assistance in dying for those suffering from a grievous and irremediable condition says to me that proximity to death is not a component of that decision.