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Physician-assisted suicide and psychiatric illness

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VANDENBERGHE, Joris

In exceptional cases, suicide might be considered a rational choice of a competent person, even in the presence of psychiatric illness. But unless a truly rigorous prospective review system is in place for such cases, countries should not legalize the practice.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1714496

Voir la revue «The New England journal of medicine, 378»

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