Should doctor assisted dying be legal?

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ENGLISH, Terence | RIBEIRO, Bernard

It could help terminally ill people in pain who want control over how they die while protecting vulnerable people, says Terence English, but Bernard Ribeiro worries about a negative effect on the doctor-patient relationship.

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