The Government Economics of ... (short version, mandatory suicide)

 Hat tip to Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man.

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/06/tab-clearing.html

He links to this study published in Omega about the cost savings to the Canadian government by expanding access to MAID (assisted suicide) to include mentally ill and old people.  Involuntary access would appear to be the key.

Government Economics of Expanding Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying to Vulnerable Populations and the Ethical Implications of Allowing the State to Control Death

It's just a study, and to be fair to the author, he spends quite a bit of the concluding paragraphs talking about the negative ramifications of both MAID and expanded access to the program, but given that the gist of the study, as evidenced in the title, is an analysis of the cost benefits of the program, it seems a bit "too little, too late".

One item that struck me, early in the Introduction, was this sentence:

A rapid increase in immigrant population has exacerbated pressures on affordable housing, schools and hospitals

 

The author does not appear to consider that the solution to these presssures might be to reduce the immigrant population, but instead focuses on the benefits of removing the legacy population faster.  Understanding that the point of the study is to analyze the cost savings of an expanded program, and also recognizing that his conclusions do address some of those concerns, but there seems to be a lack of understanding of what exactly is happening in Canada in this article.  Or perhaps it's just the ramblings of a PhD student attempting to create something that will ensure progress towards his degree.