Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients
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Citation: Rodríguez-Prat A, Monforte-Royo C and Balaguer A (2018) Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients. Front. Pharmacol. 9:294. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00294 Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients
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