‘Sick People Don’t Exist to Show Healthy People What’s Important’
The Canadian Way of Death
The nation legalized assisted suicide—and exposed the limits of liberalism, David Brooks wrote in the June 2023 issue.
“The Canadian Way of Death” is a must-read for anyone dealing with prolonged suffering or observing it in loved ones. Rarely has incisive research been combined with a humane perspective so convincingly and compellingly. Thank you, David Brooks, for expressing so well the underpinnings of our deep doubts about assisted suicide.
Susan C. Matson
Hightstown, N.J.
My husband chose to have medical assistance in dying years after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis. Reading David Brooks’s article, I feel he romanticizes the value of life and dismisses the extreme suffering and stoicism of those who are dying, and in doing so, he vilifies MAID administrators and physicians, who provide the option
