No, with respect, they are not. Thank you for the question.
Perhaps I can best answer with reference to just one case among the many that I speak of in my paper. That is a case of a young man in his twenties who wanted MAID because he was desperately lonely and felt that he would never find a loving relationship and have what he considered a normal family.
I would suggest to you that the roots of this problem, the roots of the suffering that MAID is being deployed to address, are very deep. How on earth can we safeguard against heartbreak, which was what motivated this man to request MAID? He did die, by track 2 MAID, of a broken heart, frankly, and desperate loneliness. We can't safeguard against that.
