Thank you, Dr. McCormick.
You're doing the hard work of building a suicide prevention and life promotion strategy in indigenous communities, where your focus is on connection, culture and keeping people alive. At the same time, the broader system is moving toward offering assisted death for those very same mental health struggles. In communities where decisions are deeply connected to family, culture and future generations, that seems like a very confusing message.
How do you explain that to the communities you serve? You're working to prevent suicide on the one hand, while on the other hand, the government is expanding access to state-sanctioned death for the mental health conditions your strategy is designed to address.