Unaware that le petite morte
is just an expression

Shorter Ross Douthat:

Sure, you could give sick Americans the option of voluntary euthanasia, but then they’ll just demand to stay alive because they’re selfish bastards who want everything.

Oddly enough Ross was able to get through a whole column about medical procedures without proposing  a swap of the right to euthanasia for first dibs on the contents of America’s wombs.