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> From a morbidly capitalistic point of view, insurance companies should rejoice at the prospect of a very ill person opting for assisted death. I imagine the procedure to end ones life would be much cheaper than multiple years of procedures and medicine to keep them alive.

This would make sense if life insurance and health insurance were covered by the same insurer, but they rarely are.

The more fundamental problem here is that insurance is a) to prevent financial hardship b) in the case of a rare event. Neither death nor serious illness are rare events for the elderly, and more often than not, health insurance fails to prevent financial hardship, so both of these fail as insurance in these situations.