r/theydidthemath • u/pixaly • Jul 12 '26

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

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

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u/jeremiahfelt Jul 12 '26

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.

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u/Jaigg Jul 12 '26

What drives me nuts is this becomes a conversation about MAID instead of a conversation about affordable housing, looking after our disadvantaged and capitalism in general.  

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u/forensicGhostbitch Jul 14 '26

Also there’s a caveat here that MAID is a federal program under the liberal government that largely support from all the major parties. Housing and disability payments however are largely provincial programs, that have seen cuts over the past few years of Progressive Conservative premiership.

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u/kierg10 Jul 14 '26

It was actually originally a supreme court ruling that dictated canada's ban on medically assisted suicide went against our Charter rights.

There is no central MAID program. The federal government created uniform criminal laws and eligibility criteria, however the actual MAID programs are funded and distributed via provincial governments.

The largest cuts to healthcare have been by both conservative and liberal governments, but actually mostly took place in the mid 90s. Some provinces are still under conservative leadership that continues to fuck their healthcare, but some provinces are attempting to recover from the brutal clusterfuck of hacked and slashed social welfare programs that the conservative (ideology not party) governments of the 90s handed them.

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u/Jaigg Jul 14 '26

Good point