I'll tell ya, I get no respect. I went to my broker to discuss my finances and he told me to call the suicide hotline instead.
Posted on 10/17/2025 11:04:06 AM PDT by Morgana
A lady who wrote to a financial advice column detailing her financial struggles in accessing healthcare has been told about how easy it is to access assisted suicide, which would mean she “wouldn’t need to worry”.
Writing to MarketWatch’s financial advice column, a woman in her sixties detailed how she was concerned about being unable to access Medicaid, a government health insurance programme in the United States, unless she sells off her assets. “It also goes against my principles to dispose of my assets just so the government will support me”, she said.
As age and life experiences have left her physically disabled, the woman details how she has to “keep bugging people whose job it is to assist the elderly and disabled” for assistance in doing things. She wonders whether she should “move to a state that legally allows what I consider socially approved euthanasia”.
The advice columnist highlighted how easy it would be for her to end her life by assisted suicide, and that this could be her solution, pointing out how “11 states and Washington, D.C. offer medical aid in dying for those who suffer from chronic pain or who are terminally ill”. The columnist shares how the lady “wouldn’t need to worry about the financial, emotional or physical costs” of having to move to a different state where this is available, since Oregon and Vermont allow assisted suicide for non-residents as of 2023.
Assisted suicide for financial reasons and feeling like a burden
As evidenced in places where assisted suicide or euthanasia is already legal, many people who end their lives by assisted suicide attribute feeling like a burden as one of their concerns at the end of their lives. For those who have ended their lives in the most recent year for which data is available, 45.3% cited being a burden in Canada, 42% did so in Oregon, 51% in Washington, and 35.2% did so in Western Australia.
In Oregon, one of the states recommended by the advice columnist for assisted suicide, 6% of people who ended their lives by assisted suicide or euthanasia there cited the financial implications of treatment as one of the key reasons given for ending their lives. In the last year reported in Washington, the number sat at 10%.
Concerns that this would likely happen in England and Wales if assisted suicide is legalised
There is currently a campaign to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales through the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which recently had its Second Reading in the House of Lords. Many parliamentarians have highlighted the grave concerns about how many people could likely choose to end their lives because they may feel like a burden on their family, friends, or the wider health and care services.
The former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron MP, said “[T]here is the risk of self-coercion. Many of us will have heard older relatives utter words similar to, ‘I am a burden to you. You would be better off without me.’ We all know reasonably instinctively that people will present it as making a sovereign choice, but it will be a choice born out of coercion”.
Danny Kruger MP said that the proposed legislation portrays it as “absolutely fine” if “you feel worthless or a burden to others, if the NHS will not offer you the treatment you need, if the local authority will not make the adjustments you need to your home, if you have to wait too long for a hospital appointment, or if you want to die because you think the system has failed you”.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “To offer someone struggling with their finances the option of assisted suicide and assure them that it is more easily available than they imagined is a gross dereliction of duty. Sadly, we know only too well that for some people, financial considerations are a reason to opt for assisted suicide and euthanasia. There is no good reason to think that such a tragic state of affairs will not also happen here if the assisted suicide Bill becomes law”.
“Vulnerable people in our society need our unwavering protection and the best quality care, not a pathway to assisted suicide. Evidence from abroad shows that, if this legislation becomes law, large numbers of vulnerable people nearing the end of life would be pressured or coerced into ending their lives. The House of Lords must reject the Bill to ensure this doesn’t happen”.
Anyone here know anything about MarketWatch?
Informed consent is all that should be necessary.
MW is a leftist online rag. I think it was bought it by CBS and became more leftist.
About the only thing I ever saw good at MW were Paul Merriman's columns. Much of my retirement portfolio mirrors his Ultimate Buy and Hold Portfolio.
Killing people is what any demoncrat is all about.
And yet, not one follow-up Yelp review.
“MW is a leftist online rag”
That is all I need to know! thanks.
DEPOPULATION. A$$isted. How compa$$ionate.
I’m surprised that the college participation certificate muzzies haven’t come up with an agency where depressed idiots can go to be assassinated by a wacky DemonRAT assassin at only the cost of a bullet.
My diagnosis is that she suffers from being a Democrat.
Remarkable. The lady objects to spending down her own assets before she can ask the government to support her with public assistance.
What have we become as a country?
Walk the streets of London with your pet pig.
I'll tell ya, I get no respect. I went to my broker to discuss my finances and he told me to call the suicide hotline instead.
Dear MarketWatch:Regards,I'm having difficulty finding an investment that--
Have you considered "Ethical Suicide?"
Owned by Dow Jones since 2005.
Dow Jones is owned by Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and several other major media companies.
“That is all I need to know! thanks.”
You got jerked by a false post.
I don’t want her to kill herself but why should taxpayers fund her care when she has assets?
I mean why should they if she doesn’t either, but the question remains.
One can kill oneself. No consent necessary. Don’t involve others. Don’t involve our medical community.
The advice sounds like AI generated. “You are so smart to consider ending your life. It’s easy! You would never feel pain again and you would never have to worry about bills or expenses or the cost of living.” It’s a bullshit question anyway because if you are trying to access government funded health care why would you elect to kill yourself in order to preserve your personal property? I would sell everything they said and get the services they offer in exchange instead of going to a suicide state. I don’t believe that the question was asked by any actual living person.
In Canada, ‘medical aid in dying’ has become a leading cause of death
-- The Boston Globe
That was my thought as well. Definitely AI. Those who are making speculative investments in certain companies in the hope that they will cash in big once “General AI” arises, should rethink their positions. There will never be an all-knowing, supremely wise AI that we can depend upon to answer any question. Never. At best, we will only get a sophisticated puppet show that is deceptive enough to convince the gullible that the software is actually “thinking.”
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