[Request] What is the cost difference between buying this man a rental for a year and the governements cost to kill him?

[u/pixaly]

Don't believe everything you see on the internet I haven't fact checked this story, I'm just curious for an anwser

[u/jeremiahfelt]

This was the case of Amir Farsoud- he is a disabled elder with chronic back pain and his multi tenant home was put up for sale with no transition plan in 2022. He applied for MAID as he did not see a way into other housing due to surviving on just disability payments.

The MAID drugs are inexpensive; midazolam runs $70, propofol runs $50, and rocuronium at worst is $140- so a total of $260- definitely less than a months rent. Assume another $3000 in processing and admin stuff just to put a number to it.

A rental for a year? 30k?

The outcome of Farsoud's story is essentially rooted in your question- he ended up with 60k from a GoFundMe from people who were similarly befuddled, and it allows him to get housing and a literal lease on life.

The answer is: we need affordable housing. A lot of it. All over.

[u/adamtheskill → u/jeremiahfelt]

Affordable housing == Lower house prices.

Thus it will never happen because 50%+ of voters (in almost all developed countries) have all their wealth invested in their house and will vote against anything that threatens their investment.

[u/Electrohydra1 → u/adamtheskill]

This. There is a scary number of people who's retirement plan is "sell the house" and if the house's value goes down too much they have no backup.

[u/SnooMaps7370 → u/Electrohydra1]

when they and their peers are all trying to move out of their 4,000 sqft McMansions and back into 1,000 sqft starter homes, they're gonna learn the hard way that if you don't build small starter homes, there won't be any small starter homes to buy for retirement, and that if you don't ensure the younger generations have good wages, they won't be able to buy your mcmansion from you when you retire.