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Dmitrii Zelenskii's avatar

It is quite possible that a person in a not-quite-healthy is capable of decisions in _general_ but the decision to end one's life will have an abnormally large appeal and thus provide warped incentives compared to an able-to-think-clearly person. Just like gamblers are capable of decisions in _general_ but have to restrict themselves from casinos because they know they won't make the right decisions there.

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