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Is this person with dementia (currently) competent to request euthanasia? A complicated and underexplored question
- Correspondence to Dr Scott YH Kim, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; scott.kim{at}nih.gov
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Is this person with dementia (currently) competent to request euthanasia? A complicated and underexplored question
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- Received January 24, 2020
- Revised June 12, 2020
- Accepted June 17, 2020
- First published August 13, 2020.
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January 07, 2022
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