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Perhaps Gawande's own prejudices are showing when he simply assumes that the elderly or terminally ill, in wishing to escape from constant pain or degeneration through suicide, are--if not actually addicted or mentally ill--then "obviously" irrational.
That is to say, memories take hold to the extent that they are--if one wants to use the word--"instrumental" for some purpose.