“People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering self seems to stick to the Peak-End rule even when the ending is an anomaly, Just a few minutes without pain at the end of their medical procedure dramatically reduced patients’ overall pain ratings even after they’d experienced more than half an hour of high level of pain.”

p237, '8 Courage' , 'Being Mortal', Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685 ― Atul Gawande

— Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Wellcome Collection) (Page 237)