Skip to main content
Fachgebiete
Automobil + Motoren Bauwesen + Immobilien Business IT + Informatik Elektrotechnik + Elektronik Energie + Nachhaltigkeit Finance + Banking Management + Führung Marketing + Vertrieb Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe Versicherung + Risiko
DE
EN
Bücher
Zeitschriften
Themenseiten
Organisationspsychologie Projektmanagement Marketing Smart Manufacturing
Weitere Formate
Podcasts Webinare Technik Webinare Wirtschaft Kongresse Veranstaltungskalender Awards
Jetzt Einzelzugang starten
Zugang für Unternehmen
Referenzkunden
SLX-Digitalkonferenz: Zukunftswerkstatt 2024

Mehr Umsatz mit Top-Kontakten

Am 7. Mai erfahren Sie, wie Vertriebsteams Leadgenerierung, Leadnurturing und Leadstrategien effizient steuern können.
Erweiterte Suche
Anmelden
nach oben
Erschienen in:
Introduction Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

4. The Oregon Paradox

verfasst von : Li Way Lee

Erschienen in: Behavioral Economics and Bioethics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config
loading …

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.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren
Vorheriges Kapitel The Two Selves in My Friend Addict
Nächstes Kapitel The Two-Headed Physician
Fußnoten
1
To qualify, a resident must make three requests (two verbal and one written), have two physicians and possibly a psychiatrist certify terminal illness and mental competency, and then wait at least 15 days before getting the medicine. See Oregon’s website for detailed instructions.
 
2
Many more residents initiated the application, but did not follow through with it (Tolle et al. 2004).
 
3
These paths are based on well-known “trajectories of chronic illness” (Lynn and Adamson 2003; Gawande 2014, Chapter 2; Zitter 2017, Appendix One).
 
4
My model is similar to the one that Posner (1995, pp. 245–250) uses in his analysis of suicide. Posner also assumes that a person faces two possible future states: “the doomed state” and “the healthy state.” In the doomed state, a person’s utility is negative.
 
5
We may go even a step further. Knowing that the medicine is available at the local pharmacy for the asking, we may not bother to get it—since we know we probably would not use it.
 
Literatur
Angell, Marcia. “The Quality of Mercy.” In Timothy Quill and Margaret P. Battin, eds. Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. 15–23.
Coombs Lee, Barbara, ed. Compassion in Dying: Stories of Dignity and Choice. Troutdale: New Sage Press, 2003.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2014.
Hamermesh, Daniel S., and Neal M. Soss. “An Economic Theory of Suicide.” Journal of Political Economy, 82 (1), 1974, pp. 83–98.CrossRef
Kahneman, Daniel, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler. “The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (1), 1991, pp. 193–206.CrossRef
Lee, Li Way, “The Oregon Paradox.” Journal of Socio-Economics, 39 (2), April 2010, pp. 204–208.CrossRef
Lynn, Joanne, and David M. Adamson. “Living Well at the End of Life: Adapting Health Care to Serious Chronic Illness in Old Age.” RAND Health White Papers, Santa Monica, California, 2003.
Pearlman, Robert, and Helene Starks. “Why Do People Seek Physician-Assisted Death?” In Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin, eds. Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. 91–101.
Posner, Richard A. Aging and Old Age. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Preston, Tom. Patient-Directed Dying: A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill. New York: iUniverse Star, 2007.
Quill, Timothy E. “Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making.” New England Journal of Medicine, 324, 1991, pp. 691–694.CrossRef
Quill, Timothy E., and Margaret P. Battin, eds. Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Terman, Stanley A. The Best Way to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life. Carlsbad: Life Transitions Publications, 2007.
Thaler, Richard H. “Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1, 1980, pp. 39–60.CrossRef
Tolle, Susan W., Virginia P. Tilden, Linda L. Drach, Erik K. Fromme, Nancy A. Perrin, and Katrina Hedberg. “Characteristics and Proportion of dying Oregonians Who Personally Consider Physician-Assisted Suicide.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 15 (2), 2004, pp. 111–122.
Yang, Bijou, and David Lester. “A Prolegomenon to Behavioral Economic Studies of Suicide.” In Morris Altman, ed. Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 2006, pp. 543–559.
Zitter, Jessica. Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. New York: Avery, an Imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017.
Metadaten
Titel
The Oregon Paradox
verfasst von
Li Way Lee
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Behavioral Economics and Bioethics

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-89778-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-89779-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89779-0_4

Premium Partner

    Bildnachweise