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Daniel Kahneman died last year by assisted suicide
"I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous," he wrote in an email.
Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday. Kahneman flew to Switzerland a year ago to end his life and only let close friends and family know about his decision when he was en route to Europe in an email. I suspect he worked out a hedonic calculus of when the burdens of life would begin to outweigh the benefits – and he probably foresaw a very steep decline in his early 90s.” THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Daniel Kahneman at the White House, in 2013.
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