The Oregon Paradox

Li Way Lee ()
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Li Way Lee: Wayne State University

Chapter Chapter 4 in Behavioral Economics and Bioethics, 2018, pp 25-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When terminally ill people are given the option of legally hastening death, they often feel a sense of greater well-being and a desire to live longer. In my explanation of this paradox, a terminally ill person has two selves. The right-to-die empowers the future self to gain control of suffering at the end of life. That makes the present self, who has empathy with the future self, feel a surge in well-being and the desire to live a longer life.

Keywords: Right to die; Death with Dignity Act; Present self; Future self; Well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89779-0_4

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