If I might, I'd like to ask about recommendations 12 and 13, on the timing of the completion of the declaration of competence, and specifically about advance directives.
You say on page 32 that you “recognize that rules about advance directives vary across the country and, therefore, where a patient wishes to consent to physician-assisted dying in advance”, you recommend “a standardized patient declaration form”.
Could you help us understand your process of thought on this issue?