text: It is also the case that people are smarter in some areas than you, and can give you important insight that may lead to a change in your decision. If you are about to get brain surgery, and you know nothing about it, except that it's really dangerous and you don't want it, you'd rather live it out until you die. If you find the best brain surgeon there is, and they say they've dealt with much worse surgeries and their patients have walked out of the hospital fine after a week of recovery, wouldn't that effect your point of view? That would probably give you a new sense of hope, and make you want to go though witht the surgery right? But what if you also hear the day of the surgery that the rate of survival is low? Decision making is based off the knowledge that we have, but why don't we use our resources to find out more knowledge to imporve our decision? That's another thing to keep in mind when making important decisions. See the whole picture.