Yes, I have maintained, like many other disabled people throughout this entire conversation, that I am pro-choice in life and in death, but when you have a situation where it's been documented that disabled people are choosing to use MAID because they have no other options available....
Again, I talked about Chris Gladders, who was sitting in his feces and urine for days and then chose to use MAID because of an understaffed, under-cared-for, long-term care situation. He didn't have another option. Yes, this idea that we're going to allow only disabled people and not the rest of the population to use MAID as a way out because of other conditions that they can't control.
I want everybody to have the comfort of using MAID when they want to, but I'm also thinking of all the people who have died. It's been documented. It's in the news. I think you all should look it up. It was in the Toronto Star in the last couple of weeks. I want these people to have their choice, but I don't want more people to die if their needs could have been take care of elsewhere.
My comfort in having MAID as an option is not more important than someone else's life.