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. MatsonHightstown, N.J. Explore the September 2023 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More 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 of a dignified and carefully chosen form of death. My husband was a life-affirming person; his motto was “Life is good.” For seven …