That's an interesting question. There's been a great deal of debate on what it means.
It's a difficult term. I think it means that somebody is on the course towards death. There has been a variety of terms used, whether “terminal” or “less than six months” or “reasonably foreseeable”. I think this term provides perhaps some further latitude than what currently exists in Oregon, for example.
Oregon, as you know, uses “less than six months”. In reference to Oregon, when we visited there, what Eli Stutsman, the lawyer involved in drafting the legislation for both Oregon and the State of Washington, said is that even after 17 years of experience with the Death with Dignity Act, there is no appetite whatsoever to extend the criteria beyond six months. Even when he was asked about 12 months and about whether he was excluding people who might otherwise access dying with dignity, he said there is no appetite, even amongst the strongest proponents; and that six months or less is what they've restricted it to after 17 years of experience.
The fact is that we're going to have to set the bar somewhere, and I think “reasonably foreseeable” death is probably a prudent place to set that bar, and that we should see, after five years' experience, where it takes us.