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Let's get rational about suicide.

J Greenlaw
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Recent events have focused national attention on the appropriate role for physicians in relieving the suffering of the terminally ill. Is suicide ever rational? Should physicians participate? An attorney-nurse turned ethicist examines well-known cases and helps frame the debate.

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J Greenlaw. 1992. Let's get rational about suicide.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10116715/

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