For people who are before diagnosis—and we have been talking about strokes and so on—we also need to inform people about alternatives to MAID in those circumstances. Those include palliative sedation and voluntary stopping of eating and drinking. Quebec has done a much better job about palliative sedation than the rest of Canada. We should be talking about the entire spectrum of end-of-life care.
On May 9th, 2022. See this statement in context.