The short answer is that it's very, very complex the relationship between suicidality and psychiatric MAID. Even the language is complex. We've seen suicide, almost by definition, as something pathological but, if you talk to patients, especially ones with persistent suicidality, what they are mostly saying is that they miss a good conversation about their death wish, about wanting to die. They don't want psychiatrists or other physicians to act on it immediately through coercive protection in the form of MAID. They want to have a connection to talk about their death wish and not have it waved away immediately.
I think it is irresponsible to call MAID a form of suicide prevention, but there have been cases where people have requested MAID and got denied or where there is a delay in the system, and people end up dying through suicide, but I do not think we will see that in the numbers. Framing MAID—
