You've never been involved in a MAID assessment. Okay. Thank you very much.
I'll then go to Dr. Poirier.
I want to come back to this question of.... We heard from a witness recently, and this is something from personal experience as well, that we can discuss this concept of “happy” dementia. The person experiencing early-onset dementia said that this is a symptom like many others. You may feel fear. You may feel anger. You may be violent. You may be happy. These things change literally on a dime.
When people declare that other people are happy, it is a judgment from the outside, not from the inside, and it often is there to give the caregiver some sense of comfort that their loved one is happy, but if you spend prolonged periods of time with them, you will see that it comes and goes, like anything else.
How do we get around this idea, which seems to have taken root, that whatever you decided in your fifties, sixties, seventies or eighties about how you would characterize a death with dignity, somehow all of a sudden you're happy and you no longer want that? How do we deal with that issue, which seems to have grabbed hold?