Agree 100%. I am hoping to use the MAID option on myself one day. Cancer runs in the family. Of course I hope to get to at least 80 or so. There is definitely such a thing as a "good death" and a "bad death" having seen both close-up in family members. Knowing my $ is going to my children instead of some scammy health insurance providers will give me the final smile on my face, and my last thought will be "I WON"

This is not a good argument for MAID, and I think there are countless dystopian sci-fi stories that exhibit this reasoning that I’d like to avoid (The Giver, Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, etc)

If we start looking at people who use MAID as selfless because they are “giving back to society”, and relieving the “financial burden”, what does that make people who choose to stick around? Are they selfish?

No one should be pressured or guilted into choosing an option like MAID - people are more than just balances on a spreadsheet.

To clarify, it's not an argument being made, it's an appreciation for the full extent of what they are doing.

Not to society, but to their loved ones. Whether their children via inheritance or their spouse they didn't bankrupt.

They've already given to society, probably for most of their lives. It is now their turn to have some small amount returned.

And there it is - "Lebensunwertes Leben" [1], but compassionately

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/21/magazine/german-doctors-a...

IMO the financial aspect is the strongest argument against assisted suicide. When the government can save money by encouraging you to kill youself the incentives are just really bad.