 Ireland, what are you doing? Well, sure. OK, I was originally from Connecticut, but I came here in 1966 for a Peace Corps training. And then after a Peace Corps on the Marshall Islands, I went back, got my MD in University of Connecticut, did some training in emergency medicine in California, and then ended up on the Big Island 25 years ago. And working in the Kona Hospital, I was vice chief of staff there when I left. And then I went back to school and actually got a degree in psychology and was halfway through a program in mental health counseling. So I've had a lot of psychology courses as well as medical training. I think that's important for this issue because it's not just medication. It's the psychology of dying. And so many people don't want to talk about death and dying and planning in advance. And your letter, which we will post, your letter was so good and it dealt with all of those issues that we have to deal with prior to making a decision about medical aid and dying. You want to tell us about that or how you came to this issue? Well, I should say, this is Representative Richard Kreegan. Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I'm in Ireland so you can make low the thirds to show who he is. Yeah, I represent Richard Kreegan. Thank you. And this issue has been on the table for some time. Doctors deal with this issue all the time in hospitals. They're controlling people's pain, but that control of pain often results in them dying. And they call that a dual effect. But I mean, you don't do this to patients without their consent, but they say, you tell them, look, we're going to help your pain. But if we control your pain, we give you enough medication to control your pain, you're likely to stop breathing. And they'll say, I'm good with that. So this isn't something that's foreign to physicians. It's part of our duty as physicians to help people not only to live, but help to have a peaceful death. So physicians have been doing this not in the sense of euthanasia, but in the sense of helping people to die a peaceful death. And I think this is just recognizing that we're all going to die someday, that most people, if you ask them how they want to die, at least many of them will say, I'd just like to die in my sleep. And this is a way of having people die in their sleep. We give them, put them into a deep sleep. And during that sleep, they die. And it's a very peaceful way to go. It's peaceful for the patient, but it's also very peaceful for the family. Too many people in our society are forced to take their lives by very violent means. We talk about gun violence and homicides. There's one and a half gun suicides for every gun homicide. Now, not all these people are dying, but many of them are older people who are ill and are looking for a way out of a tortured life or a very painful life. And then you have couples who murder suicides where a husband sees his wife suffering, puts her out of his misery, and then tries to kill himself. Some of the things that happen outside, we don't like to talk about those things either. But they do happen. So this is a way, a better way, of helping people to deal with the fact that they're dying and to allow them to have a choice. Not anyone has to make this choice, and most people are not going to make this choice. But the people who do want to make this choice, and I think it's an excellent choice for some people, I would like to have that choice. I don't know if I would use it. It's kind of scary thinking about dying, right? I mean, you're here and then you're not here. As a physician, the transition for most people is very peaceful. They just stop breathing. That's it, and they're gone. And in this method, that's what happens. You just stop breathing, and then you're no longer there. But if you're with the people that love you and that you love, it's such a, in my view, a much better way of going. And it's not at the hospital usually. It's usually at home, with your family, your dogs, your pets, in the place you love. I mean, I don't want people in Hawaii have to go to Oregon or California to seek this. I think we should be able to have it here. Do you think that the bill will pass this year? Do you have a feeling about that? I think it's very likely. I'm extremely likely. But it's very likely it will pass. The Speaker introduced it. He believes in it. Four of our governors are supporting it. I think most of the people in the House and Senate support it. But it's one of these issues that has a lot of moral loading for people. And people sometimes are hesitant to vote on bills like this. So we had the same kind of trepidation about same-sex marriage. So I think there was a lot of that trepidation whenever it was 10 years ago, when it almost passed. And some of the religious organizations came up very strongly and scared some people into not voting for it. Hopefully, that won't happen this time. Now, I feel that if you are a Catholic or a Mormon or whatever, and your religion says you don't do this and you chose to follow that religion, then all means you don't do that. But for the rest of us, should have the option that should not stand in the way of other people who do not belong to those religious traditions, organizations, that they should not be able to stand in the way of other people. That's my feeling how if we are a democracy then how can a religion stand in the way of the rest of the population?