remember, elayne shapray suffers from m.s., a debilitating but not life ending disease.e not in the end stage of a terminal illness. >> it's an interminable illness. >> reporter: interminable. >> interminable. how do you weigh that? how do you measure that unless you're sitting in my wheelchair? >> well, it seems clear from what the supreme court has said that you need not be terminally ill to qualify. >> reporter: dr. will johnston, an outspoken opponent of physician assisted death says the court's liberal language, that, the patient may suffer from an "disease or disability," and, that suffering is defined as "intolerable to the individual" leaves the door open for abuse. >> you do not even need to be physically ill. because they specifically stated that psychological suffering would qualify as well. >> so what the court said was that-- the right to assisted dying should be available only in narrow circumstances. >> reporter: grace pastine, of the british columbia civil liberties association, which successfully brought the case to the supreme court, says the specifics