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Other essays in this volume focus on how we may adapt our preferences to available health opportunities. In the late stages of a terminal illness, we may come to underestimate the desirability of a high-functioning life. Increases in the availability of life-extending technology may make it difficult to perceive value in the normal experience of aging. However, health opportunities are not the only circumstantial factors that stand to influence our end of life choices.
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Khader, S.J. (2013). Gendered Adaptive Preferences, Autonomy, and End of Life Decisions. In: Räikkä, J., Varelius, J. (eds) Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38376-2_6
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