Physician-assisted death: dying with dignity?

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Published in Lancet Neurol on October 01, 2003

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Peter Reagan, Rachel Hurst, Lisa Cook, Zbigniew Zylicz, Margaret Otlowski, Jan H Veldink, Leonard H van den Berg, John H J Wokke

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