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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
The unfeasibility of requests for euthanasia in advance directives
- Correspondence to: J J M van Delden Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, PO Box 85500 (HP D01.335), 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands; j.j.m.vandeldenumcutrecht.nl
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The unfeasibility of requests for euthanasia in advance directives
Publication history
- Received December 18, 2002
- Accepted March 11, 2003
- Revised February 21, 2003
- First published October 5, 2004.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2004 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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