On Sunday the published a feature about Canada’s legal regime for assisted suicide , wrapping large volumes of reporting on law, ethics and medicine around the individual story of Paula Ritchie, an Ontario woman who sought and received “MAiD” after an unhappy life full of pain and misery.

Katie Engelhart’s story plays pretty fair with an explosive social issue that is of increasing global concern. She knows the ’s world audience is aware of Canada’s avant-garde experiment with the facilitation of medical suicide for patients who don’t have terminal illnesses, and she doesn’t stack the deck either way.

She’s not under any fanciful illusions about the quality of Canadian medicine or Canadian welfare, specifically describing how mere administrative mistakes can lead to intolerable sufferi

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