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Some people with mild intellectual disabilities are entirely capable of requesting medical assistance in dying for themselves. However, it's important that the decision be made without undue pressure, that the individual truly give free and informed consent, and that the request not be made for economic or social reasons. The request for MAID must truly be made in an end-of-life context in which the person is experiencing intolerable suffering consistent with the current criteria of the first component of Quebec's Act respecting end-of-life care.