When the debate on this issue began again, we asked people to send us stories of their personal experiences. I received a story from a person named Andrea, who spoke about living with significant mental illness between the years of 2011 and 2016. She was in a psych ward six times, and she would have wanted MAID if it had been available to her. It was not available, and she's happy to be alive.
Someone named Catherine sent us a similar letter about attempting suicide several times. She truly was treated as if she were a hard case, irremediable, but then something changed in her life. She's now married and stable. She has a child. She's fully employed, and she's happy to be alive.