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Eligibility for assisted dying: not protection for vulnerable people, but protection for people when they are vulnerable
- Correspondence to Dr Janine Penfield Winters, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand; janine.winters{at}otago.ac.nz
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Eligibility for assisted dying: not protection for vulnerable people, but protection for people when they are vulnerable
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- Received August 12, 2021
- Accepted August 20, 2021
- First published September 8, 2021.
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September 22, 2021
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