THE FAILURE OF SUCCESS HYPOTHESIS AND THE DEMAND FOR DEATH: A CLUE FROM COMMUNITIES IN EDO STATE

Abstract

The paper attempts to bring to the fall the situation where individuals only live longer and not healthier with the aid of technologies. It examines the extent to which technology in health production has been effective and pioneers a novel demand for death by the patient as way of reducing the burden of disease and cost of illness when disability has already been measured by both instrumental activities of daily living and activities of daily living. It utilizes the purposive sampling technique, with two structured questionnaires for both members of sampled communities and expert medical professionals to test the failure of success hypothesis and demand for death. It finds that even though respondents see our novel demand for death as a remedy to severe burden of disease and cost of illness occasioned by the failure of success – as validated by the paper - the fear of death and some beliefs about eternity create skeptics for this remedy. However, the experts succumbed to the remedy and that medical assistance may be needed to make death less painful, peaceful and minimize the cost of dying.