That's exactly the situation my father was in. He was at the end of life, clearly. He was technically in palliative care, but he had been ill for years. He had had cancer for almost 20 years. He had always said that when there was no longer any quality of life and he was suffering too much, he would opt for medical assistance in dying, and that's exactly what he did. He waited until there was no longer any quality of life before making the request. Technically, he was receiving palliative care. He had been prescribed medication, including morphine, but he refused to take it. He wanted to remain lucid up until the final minute. And then, one day, he requested medical assistance in dying.
I was shocked to hear in the earlier presentation that people had been able to receive medical assistance in dying within 48 hours. In my father's case, it took two weeks after he made the request. The doctor and the medical team regularly checked with him about his request right up until the final minute, over a period of two weeks.
So the process wasn't exactly rapid. By rapid I mean that it wasn't within the 48 hours mentioned in the example we were given earlier about how things are apparently done elsewhere.