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Article: Difficult choices: to agonize or not to agonize?
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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"AGONY OF DOUBT"
"WHAT A DIFFICULT CHOICE," A FRIEND SMILINGLY COMMENTS AS SHE faces the well-endowed dessert counter at a party. Having heard the traffic report on the radio in the morning, I may find it difficult to choose which route to take, as I learn that all routes to my destination are likely to be congested. A relative tells me that the formal act of signing the final papers committing his aging parent to an institution was one of the most difficult choices he experienced. Reflecting on the legal and medical professions, the comment is sometimes heard that in choosing either of them one must be prepared to face many difficult choices in one's ...