This is news because the government is promoting suicide over medical care for seriously ill patients.
The line between "right to die with dignity" and "duty to die promptly and cheaply" is very fine.
News stories like this are supposed to make it easier to accept when Grandma gets sent home with a handful of pain pills because it is too expensive for the government to pay for her heart surgery.
The old method of patients and families making decisions about care without government intrusion is falling by the way because healthcare workers are becoming an arm of the government.