This is the future and is the present depending on what part of the US you would live in. I know someone who works in an in-patient therapy program, and while I understand the thought process for it being more "humane", when taken to this extreme (which it does there) it has no end other goal except to create false sense of comfort... and that to me, I question if
that is humane. We are allowing folk to believe in a lie on the basis that to tell them otherwise would create some sort of harm... except aren't we doing harm when we lie to them... when they inevitably find out that broad swaths of their friends aren't brave enough to tell them the truth, I can see that opening the doors to a lot of issues with dealing with the truth and self-esteem problems actually.