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Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- Correspondence to Petros Panayiotou, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK; petros.panayiotou{at}exeter.ox.ac.uk
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Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
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- Received March 10, 2023
- Accepted June 25, 2023
- First published July 6, 2023.
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May 22, 2024
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