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. 1999 Jun;25(3):245–246. doi: 10.1136/jme.25.3.245

Advance directives are the solution to Dr Campbell's problem for voluntary euthanasia.

A Flew 1
PMCID: PMC479217  PMID: 10390680

Abstract

Dr Neil Campbell suggests that when patients suffering extremes of protracted pain ask for help to end their lives, their requests should be discounted as made under compulsion. I contend that the doctors concerned should be referred to and then act upon advance directives made by those patients when of sound and calm mind and afflicted by no such intolerable compulsion.

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