First and foremost, our expertise is in addressing suffering, so we come alongside a person to understand what's going on in their unique context. Not all requests for MAID are from somebody who wants to immediately terminate their life. Often requests for a desire for death in MAID come from suffering that needs to be heard, and lament and grief that are a normal part of coming to terms with the possibility of your own death.
We have all kinds of interventions and supports that can help reframe living for people, and people want to live. Our first responsibility is to help make sure what it is a person is actually asking for and that they understand all the things that are available to them. Absolutely, we talk to them about the procedure of MAID and what it is, and if that's what they want, we make sure that they have access to it.
That is not precluded from.... They are not separate in the sense that they can't have MAID if they have palliative care. I want to be clear on that. We provide palliative care to everyone regardless, but MAID is not part of palliative care. It is a separate medical procedure and it shouldn't be provided through existing palliative care resources or in the context of palliative care.