Wish to die in end-stage ALS.

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Published in Neurology on July 12, 2005

Authors

S M Albert1, J G Rabkin, M L Del Bene, T Tider, I O'Sullivan, L P Rowland, H Mitsumoto

Author Affiliations

1: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. sma10@columbia.edu

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