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Your article described a fall in the rate of ‘life-ending acts without explicit request’ (LAWER) with a rise in the rate of euthanasia since legalization of euthanasia in Belgium. Given this coincidental rise and fall, I propose the hypothesis that legalisation has converted cases that would previously have been LAWER into euthanasia. Instead of performing LAWER whilst believing that their patients wanted euthanasia, I p...
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