Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This, again, is part of an effort to fix what I find to be quite an unfortunate series of definitions of the Supreme Court term “grievous and irremediable” that take it in a direction that conflicts with the court's ruling. Earlier we heard from Mr. Rankin about the somewhat farcical nature of “natural death has become reasonably foreseeable”. I don't know how to break it to all of us here today, but I think we do know none of us is getting out of here alive. This is a mortal life. All of our deaths are “reasonably foreseeable”, and then we have the further addition of them being without any prognosis about the specific length of time we have remaining. In cosmic terms, we don't count for much at all. There's been life on earth for four billion years. If you look at our lives, we're kind of a cosmic blink of an eye.
It's an odd provision. It's odd. What it seems to be trying to say is that the condition has to be terminal, but that, again, conflicts directly with what the Supreme Court said in Carter. I find proposed paragraph 241.2(2)(d) to be so difficult that there's nothing to be done with it except to delete it, and that is the purpose of amendment PV-4.