That's a false dichotomy.
The principle of double effect allows one to attempt to relieve suffering with treatments having high mortality rates.
Euthanasia is a cost-saving measure to avoid the high costs of palliative care for non-palliative patients, and in the examples cited in the article -- healthcare in general.
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In all seriousness, I do the same. We're pretty fortunate to win at the game of life and not get stuck in the living-paycheque-to-paycheque hole, aren't we?