Lots of people are already struggling with their money situations and when a person is ill in the hospital only going to live for a couple more days it creates even more hospital bills. “Taking Physician-Assisted Death will ease their families financial burdens as well as their suffering.” (De La Torre) It’s not worth paying so much money to watch someone suffer. All the hospital bills added together sometimes cover more than people’s rent! Often the cost is sometimes too much for the terminally ill’s family. Every day they are waiting for the day the pain end, the day they die, so why are they being kept alive. “The cost of maintaining a dying person has been estimated as ranging from about two thousand to ten thousand dollars a month” If someone is told that they have 5 months left to live why would they want to sit through the pain in the hospital if it’s going to cost over 10,000 dollars to maintain them. Damaging financial and emotional effects of hospital care on families can be reduced through Physician-Assisted