We just completed a systematic review of the literature and found a lot of overlap and inconsistency in how research—the published peer-reviewed literature—was talking about and defining suicide in relation to MAID.
In many of these debates, they're treated as very distinguishable, but in the scientific literature, that distinction is not clear. We also found no standardized tools that could reliably distinguish between suicide and an interest in dying from MAID.
I'm not sure we can get there such that we are able to distinguish between them. They are overlapping concepts. They're both an intention or an interest in dying. They're both signs of despair or thoughts of despair.