I'd be happy to answer the first part, and this would be directly on behalf of Dr. David Kuhl, the co-founder of our program. He worked in palliative care at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver for a number of years, so he'll often say that he's seen thousands of people die.
What encouraged him to get involved in this project was that he saw many men and women dying alone at the end of their lives. They had served in the military. They were coming out of the downtown eastside in Vancouver, drug-addicted, and they died horrible deaths. He said that some of them had managed to function right to the end. They had managed to get by, but the way they died was in pain, it was alone, and it was outside of their communities.
That's when he came to the younger generation of veterans, because he saw the impact of putting out the face of everything being okay, and of having a few drinks or a beer and carrying on. But he will say that underneath, in the inside world, it was not okay and that's what comes out at the end of life.