It would certainly allow me to live with my disease for a longer period. Right now, however, advance requests for MAID are not available. So there definitely would come a time when I wouldn't want to take the risk that things worsen too much and that I would want to move quickly before I lose my ability to make informed decisions. But with an advance request, I would be able to clearly establish what is acceptable for me and what is not. Moreover, I've already spoken with people close to me, my children, and everyone is in agreement.
Ideally, however, I would like to live for a relatively long time. I want to experience part of my illness. I don't want to leave at the beginning, and I'm willing to accept being lost and needing assistance.
However, I don't want to experience the final phase of the disease, completely dependent and unable to express myself very much, if at all. I've seen it and I don't want to live through it. That's what I would specify in an advance request. It would definitely give me more time.
Without wishing to put pressure on you, if advance requests were not approved by Parliament, then unfortunately, I would have to decide to leave before entering that phase, in order to avoid becoming trapped.