Our view as nurses is that this change in the Criminal Code is perhaps the most profound one in the history of our country. I'm old enough to remember that we once had a state in which the only person who could end your life was the state. Nobody else could do it.
We are now in the position where we have flipped that around to where the state cannot carry out capital punishment to end a life, but in this very sacred space on earth, a doctor can enter into that arrangement with a patient. It's a profound change in our culture that we haven't begun to understand yet, and we believe it should be reviewed on a regular basis.