Thank you for that question.
It comes back to the point I made, which has come up repeatedly in the court decisions, that it's the whole person you look at, not the diagnosis. When I first saw cases in the Benelux countries with personality disorder, I thought that this was terrible and that there must have been a mistake.
I went to Belgium and I sat down with my colleagues there, and we went over the cases in great detail. The devil is in the details with this. You're looking at the whole person, not a diagnosis. The people who have had personality disorders and received MAID have been suffering for years and years with an intractable illness that is typically resistant to medication and frequently resistant to psychotherapy, and it is causing them enormous distress. You have to let go of the notion of what the diagnosis is and focus on what the suffering of the person is.
This is why the courts have been so effective, because they have only one or two people in front of them at one time. They can look very carefully at it.