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A Rational Choice: Suicide  Tales From the New Asylum: Pascal’s Wager


Author:  James L.  Knoll, IV, M.D..


Source: Volume 12, Number 06, March/April 2011 , pp.81-81(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

A lifer contemplating suicide muses Pascal’s “Wager” - does “reason” conclude that even though the existence of God cannot be determined, one should nevertheless “wager” as though God exists, because one has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.

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