Thank you, Mr. Krausert, but you are the person living in your own body and, as we heard from Dr. Smith, the whole human being must be looked at here: that whole person with the brain that is now being afflicted by some sort of different way of looking at the world or by mental illness. This is part of the overall human being that we're talking about, and the courts have ruled that this is very different.
You have learned a particular lesson from your own experience that is not necessarily for every human being who is suffering from a mental illness and from a chronic illness for which they decide they do not want any more treatment, which is different from suicidal ideation, by the way.
Do you really believe that this should be done, as MAID is suggesting, on a case-by-case basis, dealing with physicians who have that ability to understand competency, to understand the difference between suicide and and irremediable and intolerable suffering, and who can therefore make those decisions to assist a patient who has all the informed consent available in terms of all their options?
Do you agree that this is an individual thing and that we can't use your experience to define what another human being's experience would be in a given case?