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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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Contributors JPW is the sole author. She developed these idea and wrote this commentary.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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