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Learning about end-of-life care from grandpa

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HALPERN, Scott D.

Experience with his 103-year-old grandfather teaches a physician-bioethicist that for people without terminal or mental illness who desire to end their life, the alternative to physician-assisted dying — to stop eating and drinking — is just too challenging.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2026629

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