Individuals who request MAID in our care at The Dorothy Ley Hospice have received high-quality palliative care. However, as I said earlier, they are choosing MAID for a reason, whether it's because they don't want their family to watch them die and suffer in that way or because it's a choice for them or because their suffering still isn't relieved with all of the other options in palliative care.
Again, high-quality palliative care often prolongs life and often provides good quality of life. It doesn't mean that nobody will access medical assistance in dying, but it does mean that people will be making an informed choice on whether medical assistance in dying is really what they want in order to address their worries, concerns, distress or pain. There are other palliative care options that might assist them.