In your testimony you talked a little bit—and you just raised it again—about the issue of determining incurability. You also expressed concern or suggested it was problematic to assess cases on a case-by-case basis, as the expert panel recommended. The expert panel, on the question of incurability, spoke about determining it based upon “treatment attempts made up to that point, outcomes of those treatments, and severity and duration of illness, disease or disability.” In other words, it's been said that someone who is suffering from a sole mental illness, who hasn't gone for treatments, who just shows up and requests MAID, is not the type of patient who would successfully obtain a request.
Can you speak to that recommendation of the expert panel and any concerns you see from that standpoint?