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Just dying: the futility of futility
- Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Suite 8, Littlegate House, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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Just dying: the futility of futility
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- Received March 20, 2012
- Accepted March 21, 2012
- First published August 13, 2012.
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August 19, 2013
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