In his weekly Takimag column, the skeptical doctor summarizes a book he picked up in a Parisian bookshop on the Swiss procedure relating to assisted suicide.

At the same time, however, many of us feel a certain unease about the subject. Is not assisted suicide the beginning of a slippery slope or the thin end of a wedge? How long before well-meaning people, full of protocols and good intentions, will be deciding for us that our lives are not worth living?