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135940 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.35910 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2015-12 28 pages eng Jenkins, Kylie Cunningham, Chloe Mendez, Jose Oberlin, Stephen Department of Economics Barrett, The Honors College Text The purpose of this thesis was to estimate the potential health care cost savings from legalizing a physician assisted suicide (PAS) policy on both a national and individual scale. Given the evolving legal context of PAS paired with the rapidly rising health care costs and aging population in the United States, we hypothesized that implementing a PAS policy on a federal scale would significantly lower healthcare costs. We conducted our analysis using 2 methods: one based on data from the Netherlands and one based on data from Oregon. Overall, we found that while cost savings on a national level are not significant enough to solely justify legalization of PAS, there is a compelling case that legalization of PAS would be a compassionate policy that significantly relieves the financial burden on individuals and their families. Economics Physician-assisted Suicide Healthcare Assisted Suicide Law PAS REASSESSING POTENTIAL COST-SAVINGS FROM LEGALIZING PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE