Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to this speech.
I hope that, once this debate is over, we will remember how much we have in common in our humanity, something that we all too often forget in the political arena.
The member who just spoke will find that my support for palliative care is unconditional. I have a question for him. I am asking myself that question at the same time because in many of the speeches that we heard today, including my own, members have been talking about their own personal experiences with death.
I think that the bill before us today requires us to look at things from a different perspective and to put ourselves in the shoes of the person who is dying.
Just before my mother died, she was taking such high doses of morphine that she was almost completely unaware of what was happening around her, but those drugs prevented her from suffering. I am trying to put myself in her shoes and think about whether she would have liked to leave when she was conscious, surrounded by her loved ones, knowing that medical assistance in dying was available to her.