Tue Sep 17, 2024 – 12:34 pm EDT
(Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) — Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.
A “cost analysis of medical assistance in dying [suicide] in Canada” estimates that the policy could save the Canadian state between $34.7 and $136.8 million every year.
“As death approaches,” the study states, “health care costs increase dramatically in the final months. Patients who choose medical assistance in dying may forgo this resource-intensive period.”
The report was based on projections using data from Belgium and the Netherlands, where assisted suicide has been legal for over two decades. “Medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) in Canada was legalized in 2016.
Although the authors of the report claim they “are not suggesting medical assistance in dying as a measure to cut costs,” they “suggest that the savings will almost certainly exceed the costs associated with offering medical assistance in dying to
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