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The Lost Art of Dying (with Dr. Lydia Dugdale)

Good Faith

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The Pressure to Stop Treatment of Elderly Patients

There are multiple studies both in the us and in canada that look at net savings projected with the widespread uptake of euthanasia or physician assisted suicide. One could imagine adult children put on their Elderly parents just for the sake of convenience and then you add to that health care costs. Our health care budget is already exploding everyone's complaining about their premiums Maybe we should just you know eliminate certain groups of people So I don't see it going in a favorable direction, certainly if euthanasia is on the table over physician assisted suicide That raises the stakes for sure And what does that do to them?

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