This article explores the impact that belief in an infinite afterlife has on end-of-life decisions, specifically on those viewed at the extreme, such as martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators. We extend a simplified expected utility-based model to include variations of infinitely rewarding afterlife’s and explore how this may impact the expected utility and rationality of earthly actions and decisions of individuals when the expected utility payoff is infinite. We show that the decision process for suicide and euthanasia is closely linked to martyrs, suicide bombers and self-immolators, such that all these individuals make rational decisions to regards to the end of their own life.

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为事业而死：烈士、自杀式炸弹袭击者和自焚者的合理性

本文探讨了对无限来世的信念对临终决定的影响，特别是对那些被极端看待的人，如烈士、自杀式炸弹袭击者和自焚者。我们扩展了一个简化的基于预期效用的模型，以包括无限回报来世的变化，并探索当预期效用回报是无限的时，这可能如何影响地球行为和个人决策的预期效用和合理性。我们表明，自杀和安乐死的决策过程与烈士、自杀炸弹手和自焚者密切相关，因此所有这些人都会做出理性的决定来看待自己的生命终结。