Blog post by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) — Photo: Freepik

"Mental health: offering medical assistance in dying to prevent suicide" is the title of an opinion piece published in Le Soleil. The paradox it presents would be laughable were it not for the fact that this is an extremely serious matter.

Just think about it: proposing death to prevent people from killing themselves! Offering suicide to prevent suicide...

This is the proposal of Dr Chantal Descoteaux and Dr Claude Gagnon, who are thankfully currently retired. Their piece is riddled with contradictions from start to finish.

It is said that people who take their own lives are either experiencing a temporary crisis or have been receiving long-term healthcare and have tried all the suggested solutions. Driven by despair, they chose to end their lives. The doctors then go on to say, "Turning a blind eye to this reality does not save any lives." A strange line of thinking, since how exactly does killing suicidal people save lives?

While it is true that this would reduce suicide rates, since assisted suicide is not counted as a suicide, this is a fundamental error since in both cases the person wishes to end their own life.

By Quebec Life Coalition — Photo: video screenshot/ODGProd et 2 autres/YouTube

How Luiza’s hit song, set to a lighthearted tune, sums up everything a civilization must first forget in order to stop having children.

Some songs are content to simply please. Then there are those that, perhaps unwittingly, recite a creed. "Soleil Bleu," by the electro-reggae duo Bleu Soleil and the singer Luiza, belongs to the latter category. Released in April 2025, the song became the summer hit, shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media. Some credited it with saving them from depression. The song transcended the status of a commercial hit to become a philosophy of life. It is precisely for this reason that it deserves a closer listen. What millions of people hum with their eyes closed eventually forms a collective consciousness, which ultimately determines whether a society will have heirs.

Let's give credit where credit is due. The song is well-crafted. The vocals are beautiful, the chorus sticks in your mind from the first listen, and the atmosphere is uplifting. However, this success is not a mitigating factor; it is precisely what makes the piece so formidable. An ugly anthem appeals to and converts no one. It is the beauty of the song that opens hearts, and through this open door, the creed slips in without knocking. The grace of the melody does not excuse the message; rather, it carries it. The gentler the packaging, the more the content goes unnoticed and takes effect. This is why we must listen to this song not as we savor a success but as we examine a mechanism.

Moreover, Luiza is no amateur. Born in Rennes in 1995 to a Brazilian mother, a dancer, and a French father, a double bass player, she trained in opera singing, the harp, and the piano at the conservatory. She also attended the School of Fine Arts in La Réunion. Luiza embodies cultured, cosmopolitan, gifted Western youth who are deeply convinced that one must break free from one’s roots. She wrote most of the text on a commuter train after a breakup. It's the perfect image of the times: the credo of a generation written while in transit, belonging to neither place.