Maybe I could lead off that discussion. I'm very much in agreement. We need better palliative care in Canada. The biggest problem now is accessing it, because mostly it's available only in the major centres.
However, I think that if you look at the experience in Oregon, you will see that there are more people accessing palliative care who want to have physician-assisted dying than there are people who die from natural causes, so it's not one or the other. In spite of the best palliative care, we are all going to die, so it's probably not one or the other. It's both.
I think the other model we have to keep in mind, particularly with the model of continuous sedation, is that the vast majority of Canadians want to die at home, surrounded by their friends and family. If you look at the statistics from Oregon, you see that more than 70% of people who have physician-assisted dying die at home. That's one of the great advantages. Because no one is going to get continuous sedation in their home, we should make options available for Canadians to die at home where they wish to, at a time of their choosing, and surrounded by their friends and family.