Israeli-American Nobel Laureate Revealed to have Died by Assisted Suicide

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Wall Street Journal says [Daniel Kahneman], pioneer of behavioral economics, who died last year at 90, made decision to forgo suffering of old age and leave life on his own terms

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In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research integrating psychology and economics, which challenged the notion that people act rationally. Instead, he argued, people's mental biases often lead them to make decisions that run counter to their own interests.

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Would that the entire US had similar laws, that let people over 70 make their own decisions about their lives and how much suffering they are willing to live with. The Catholic Church is against death with dignity laws, including for those suffering with painful incurable deadly diseases, because, of course, we own the Priest down the street our suffering.

#1 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-19 07:47 AM