US Edition’Thinking, Fast and Slow’ writer Daniel Kahneman chose to end his own life, says report
- Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics, Daniel Kahneman, 90, chose to end his life via doctor-assisted suicide in Switzerland a year ago, as revealed in a Wall Street Journal essay on Friday.
- Kahneman, known for his groundbreaking research on decision-making and the integration of psychology into economics, detailed his reasoning in an email to close friends and family shortly before his death.
- Kahneman, despite being in relatively good mental and physical health, believed that the indignities of old age were superfluous and wished to avoid a state where his life was not worth extending.
- In his final email, Kahneman stated, "I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous, and I am acting on that belief," and concluded with 'if you were inclined to be sorry for me, don't be'.
- Friends like University of Pennsylvania psychologist Philip Tetlock, who stated, 'Right to the end, he was a lot smarter than most of us,' viewed Kahneman's decision as consistent with his research, while some loved ones wished he had waited longer, and Kahneman himself expressed awareness of the pain his decision caused others.
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