A new study claims assisted suicide could save Canada's healthcare system up to $136.8 million annually, with critics warning that vulnerable patients could feel pressured into choosing death over ‘costly’ care.
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(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. -- More...
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