Thank you for that question.
Not only do I disagree with it, I think it's preposterous. People who call suicide hotlines may be in a situational adjustment—they've broken up with a loved one in their family or they've been fired from their job. These are not the kinds of patients who we're thinking about at all for MAID.
We're talking about patients who have been suffering from mental illness, psychiatric illness, diagnosable illness, who have been treated for multiple years by multiple treatments and have seen many psychiatrists and therapists. Those are the sorts of people likely to be eligible for MAID.
The vast majority of people who call suicide hotlines are nowhere close to being considered for MAID. That's really a red herring.