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Euthanasia, medically assisted dying or assisted suicide: time for psychiatrists to say no.

Christopher GaleYoram Barak
Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2019)
We suggest that this dynamic can be halted by international agreements of medical societies to shun involvement in euthanasia, as has been the case with other legal interventions that stigmatise. We may, as we have in the past, need to work collectively to meet this ethical challenge.
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