Canada’s assisted suicide law should tell us something about the bill that New York’s Legislature just passed.

If N.Y. Gov. Hochul signs a Medical Aid in Dying Act into law, it will be seen not as a triumph of compassion, but as a failure of courage.

A system easily gamed, especially when “a patient who requests medication under the article will not, because of that request, be considered a person who is suicidal.” Any determination of mental ...