Canada’s assisted-death law seems connected to the atomization of our society—as much a symptom of inhumanity as a cause.
Canadian law now permits something called “medical assistance in dying.” This practice, to be clear, is not palliative care. It does not refer to helping Canadians as they journey toward natural death by offering treatment to manage their pain and suffering. Medical assistance in dying—assisted death for short—is the deliberate act of ending a person’s life, typically through the administration of a lethal substance.
