Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: safeguarding against the "slippery slope"--The Netherlands versus the United States.
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0 for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! 0 for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim: .... John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"'
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Indiana international & comparative law review
دوره 13 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003