It's certainly an important part for advance directives or advance requests. I think anybody who writes an advance directive, which one can do now, should be reaffirmed periodically, three to five years or something like that, because then you see the consistency over time of somebody's wishes. If you can look at someone's advance directives over a period of five, 10, 15 or 20 years and you can see that their wishes are consistent over that time, as a clinician I would feel much more comfortable providing MAID to somebody whose wishes I knew were consistent over their lifetime as opposed to somebody whose wishes were suddenly changed with a more recent advance directive that had never previously mentioned something like MAID.
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