Thank you for that question.
There are certainly forms of mental illness that are incurable and terminal, and I'm referring here to the dementias. Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia are all going to kill people eventually, so that's certainly one category of psychiatric illness for which there is no debate about that.
But it's not about whether the illness is incurable. Some people would have us believe that we should hold on for years and years waiting for some new treatment to come down the line. What that's doing is prolonging the suffering of a person who is actively seeking their death to relieve intolerable suffering.
I don't think “incurable” is necessarily what we want to look at. We want to look at whether there are treatments available that are acceptable to the person who has been through 10 years of treatment, that are going to improve their functioning. If the answer to that is no—in other words, there are no treatments or there may be some treatments but they're not acceptable to the patient—then my understanding of the law is that they are eligible for consideration for MAID.