A defendant might rationally choose to go to trial rather than face being "warehoused" in a mental health institution, he said.

But they also deprive patients who rationally choose suicide of the knowledge they need to avoid unimaginable suffering.

Demand theory describes individual consumers as rationally choosing the most preferred quantity of each good, given income, prices, tastes, etc.

How could she blame her mother for choosing rationally and doing what was necessary to secure her situation?

But courage is also described as an ability to rationally choose the beautiful, which in some cases can be a beautiful death.

By exerting their prohairesis (will, volition, or choice), people can choose rationally how to react to impressions.

If these costs are greater than the amount the option is in the money, the owner of the option may rationally choose not to exercise.

The city presents psychiatrists who say she cannot choose rationally and is a threat to her own safety.

"A person rationally choosing this," the doctor explains, "would be deemed irrational."

Physicians should inform patients of their options but step in when patients make bad choices or are too distressed to choose rationally.