The reason people have taken their lives before the time has come—people from Dying With Dignity named some high-profile cases—is that they are terrified about what might happen. If they lose the ability to travel to Switzerland or administer a fatal dose or whatever, they will be trapped in their bodies, miserable forever.
What the Supreme Court has said is “we hear that“. They recognized that people are ending their lives early due to that, and that the law as it is was causing people to suffer. That was part of the testimony. The Government of Canada agreed to both those points.
What this legislation will do—or the lack of it, because you don't even need legislation, in my view—is provide comfort to people like Sue Rodriguez or like me when I was 23. What if I had been 53 or 73? See, things change. I would say that we need to be empathetic, not just as persons with disabilities looking out but obviously the other way. So much depends on where you are in your life, what your values are, what your religion is, and your age.
For Ottawa to have some kind of cookie-cutter solution or a panel to decide this, my goodness, you might as well keep the law the way it is, because the end result would be the same. People would not be able to access physician-assisted death, they would take actions on their own, and they would suffer in the interim.