You're dancing around the point again. To support your argument, you still have to explain how being against assisted suicide is the economic thing for the Catholic Church to do today.

You also have to explain how the Catholic Church being against the death penalty today is the economic thing to do. How does making sure we continue to house and feed inmates on death row the economic thing to do from the religion's standpoint?

You'd also have to explain why the Catholic Church is shrinking in the West if everything it does is economical.

> You're treating this whole idea as though there's a nefarious organization deliberately managing things

Actually this is precisely the tone you took in the comment I first replied to:

> The Catholic approach is economical: it's expensive to keep dying people alive [...] but trying to carve out euthanasia exceptions wasn't going to play well to medieval peasants.

This clearly implies top-down strategizing.