The vast majority of people want to continue living until the very end because they know that we will be there, that we are there to reassure them and that we will know how to ease their pain during the care journey up until the end.
I would like to state as well that because we are not lacking nurses and doctors, the patients that are being accompanied do not feel abandoned by the health care system. I would add that we offer palliative care elsewhere in Quebec, in addition to Verdun. Other municipalities are also well served. A good portion of requests for MAID are made due to psychiatric or psychological disorders, and not physical ones. We regularly offer palliative sedation to people who are tired and suffering to help them sleep and often, so that they do not wake up again.
MAID is another issue, it is not part of the continuum of palliative care. It is an essential and complementary addition to palliative care. That's the way that I see things.