This trend goes along with the Scandinavian and European ones.
If the end of life medical costs are too much for the family or the government health plan they take the patient off antidepressants, have a doctor declare them so depressed they have no reason to be kept alive, then kill the patient. The family or the health plan representatives declare the situation was hopeless and go along. Might try to convince the patient to agree, after depression from no drugs.
Father Spitzer’s Universe TV and radio show quoted one “The woman was screaming, no, don’t do this to me, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die” as doctors injected her with a hypodermic syringe.
In the US all you have to do is treat an elderly person for COVID, or keep giving them boosters until they die.