Member

I have heard concerns expressed throughout the Bill’s passage that it is intrusive or humiliating to require that a person must prove a particular degree of pain or suffering. I have listened, and my amendments take a different route, asking only that doctors establish that the reason for the request is the terminal illness itself. This is not an unreasonable bar to access; it is simply making explicit in the Bill the very reason we have been given for why an assisted death is needed.