You can make such predictions if you know enough about human behavior and are a student of history. The idea that the sick and infirmed should do us all a favor and kill themselves is a historical default. From Aboriginals leaving elders behind to fend for themselves, to the Ättestupa for the Vikings. More recent examples include the Nazis who started with ‘merciful deaths’ for ‘life unworthy of life’ in a program called Project T4. They started with the totally brain dead and slippery sloped the rest. Ended up with the incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people Initially people had to petition the authorities letters and give their reasons for recommending their family member be euthanized. Letters you can still read and the arguments in them sound exactly the same as they do today. Hitting on the major themes of ‘who’d want to live like that’, ‘it’s for their own good’, and the more honest ‘they’re costing us a bunch of money that we can’t afford’.
Many old people tend to get cranky and are a pain, plus they have expensive medical problems and gambling habits. It’s extremely common for their children to wish them dead before all semblance of an inheritance and possibly their last hope at a middle class life is gone. Many people will be left with the choice of watching their middle class life disappear or successfully convincing their parents into assisted suicide. Some people even take matters into their own hands. Killing people for your own benefit is murder but if you convince them to suicide ether by persuasion or making their life unlivable then now it’s legal. A lot more people will take that option. You might think people are nicer than that but you’d be wrong. I used to have access to search logs and the percentage of people looking to covertly drown their disabled child is crazy pervasive. And we know how many went threw with it as they later search for funeral arrangements. No one wants to do anything about it because it is seen as an effective solution to a hard problem.
The real issue is that we’re on the cusp of major medical breakthroughs that will vastly improve the lives of many chronically ill people. But instead of spending on research though it’s considered easier to convince people to kill themselves via gaslighting. The fact that disabled people are expensive is the major impetus for researching treatments. Give medical insurers and governments an option to gaslight people into a cheaper ‘treatment’ and they will take it instead and the little money spent on on such research with dry up. Seriously research the history of chronic fatigue.