While you're extending compliments to the members of the committee for the tone, may I extend compliments to you as chair for conducting a very difficult and fraught process, over a critical bill, in an exemplary fashion.
With that sucking up to the chair, I will proceed to my amendment. In brief, in form and substance it's basically taking the same piece that I argued last night in relation to what I regard as a set of conditions that misinterpret, to put it mildly, the court's understanding of “grievous and irremediable” to include this nonsense of “reasonably foreseeable”.
I'm not trying to be light about this. I do think it's a critical issue. This amendment appears in the safeguard section and is merely consistent with the arguments I made last night, where the person's natural death has become reasonably foreseeable. I've changed that to:
the person has been diagnosed with a grievous and irremediable medical condition causing enduring and intolerable suffering, taking into account all of their medical
That's my amendment that I put to you.