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What if you had an advanced directive that explicitly called out that scenario? Not saying the law would cover that, but it plausibly could.

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In Canada, yes, advanced directives can be written.

Not for assisted death and something like Alzheimer’s. That directive is for something like you are in a car accident and are on life support. You can have it say no life support. You can not currently say if I get Alzheimer’s I want to die it is not legally possible at this time.

Yes, you can. That legislation passed right before covid as a modification to the original legislation.

The original bill didn't allow it, but it got challenged in court and the government was given a deadline to add that clause.

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