Thank you, Madam Co-Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
In particular, thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Schouten, for your powerful and heartfelt testimony. I wish to express my condolences on your loss of your son.
I want to start with a general question. It sounds like your son Markus had no desire to die. He wanted to live.
However, we also heard testimony from a mother whose son was 16. MAID was not available to him. She gave powerful testimony before the committee that if he'd had the option of MAID, it would have resulted in his ending his suffering just a little sooner before he passed on.
What would you say in a situation like that? What would you say in response to that mother's very powerful testimony before this committee?