Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Dr. Bigham.
I know that you work a lot in intensive care. That's not the kind of place where you would find numerous people with dementia making advance requests for medical assistance in dying. But among your intensive care patients, there are many for whom you will be disconnecting technological devices. Some will die, but others will live longer.
Based on your experience with these people, have there been any who have told you that they would have wanted to die when the tracheotomy tube was removed, or who asked whether they might one day be able to request medical assistance in dying?
Have you ever had this kind of discussion with a patient for whom you withdrew technological devices?