All right.
Correct me if I'm wrong or if you don't agree with what I'm going to say, but in the end, medical assistance in dying should be seen as part of the continuum of care.
People sometimes say that patients request medical assistance in dying because palliative care is missing. A dying patient does not have access to palliative care and therefore requests medical assistance in dying.
But palliative care, when seen as part and parcel of accompanying a person toward death, and I would also ask that you define this notion, could be such that at a given time, a patient may be ready to let go. Because that patient has received good palliative care, has been well supported on his or her journey toward death and is completely at peace, that person could then decide that today is the day that he or she lets go and would like to depart this earth.
The example I've given you does not constitute a failure of palliative care. It could be seen as a success story for palliative care because, all of a sudden, the patient is completely at ease with letting go and requests MAID.
Do you agree with this?