I would defer to clinicians with respect to how they go about making their assessments in terms of the medical process for that, but the legal safeguards are very strong. It's not only that you have the condition. It's not only that you have the mental illness. It has to be a serious mental illness. It has to have enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them. The word “enduring” says to me a length of time, a lengthy period of time. You have to be in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability.
These are all qualifiers to the definition of what a grievous and irremediable condition is. It's not just that you have the mental illness or a disability. It's that you have all of these other qualifiers that make it a much more serious condition, which I then trust our clinicians to be able to assess.
