Next, the editorialists claim that no assisted-dying laws anywhere have ever been expanded without further legislation. Yet they admit in the next breath that Canadian courts extended assisted suicide to people who are suffering but not terminally ill. And they entirely ignore the possibility that assisted suicide will widen because the culture and practice of medicine will change under the influence of the law or because restrictions will be lightly enforced. Yet these are the main slopes down which assisted suicide has begun to slide. A recent report by Alexander Raikin, a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, says it has already gone from “a last resort” to “routine” in Canada, where assisted suicide is tied for fifth among leading causes of death.