Reflecting on Assisted Suicide and Daniel Kahneman

A lot of what I’ve written about suicide comes from my childhood experiences that I’ve written about in The Revolutionary Ketamine, my SPEAK EVENT talk, and my recent IHMC Ocala talk. I recently read a Wall Street Journal article about the death of Daniel Kahneman titled "The Last Decision by the World's Leading Thinker on Decisions" by Jason Zweig sparked my interest and prompted another article I wrote: The Controversial Trend: Are Younger Generations Embracing Euthanasia.

Zweig reflects about Daniel Kahneman’s death last year, in March 27^th, 2024 where he traveled to Switzerland clinic and paid for his assisted suicide to leave this world. Zweig, was obviously close to Kahneman and emotional about his death.

Daniel Kahneman

He was born March 5, 1934, was an Israeli-American thinker who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his work on prospect theory, a rare feat for a psychologist. Kahneman is also famous for his groundbreaking work in behavioral economics, particularl…