It’s back-to-school time in many parts of the country. Will students be painting coffins in the playgrounds? Will they have field trips to funeral homes for pajama parties?

What dark planet have I come from, asking such questions? Only our next-door neighbor, Canada. The above activities are suggestions offered by a podcast for how we can normalize medically assisted suicide — getting children used to the idea of people in their lives being killed by their doctors.

During a panel discussion in Manhattan recently, a credentialed, mainstream doctor explained that she is increasingly hearing from young trainees wondering why suicide has any kind of taboos around it. Who’s to say when suicide becomes something we should prevent?

A piece in The Atlantic, “Canada Is Killing Itself,” by Elaina

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