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Editorial
. 2022 Dec 14:13:1106384.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1106384. eCollection 2022.

Editorial: Assisted dying in persons with mental illness

Manuel Trachsel  1   2   3 , Anna Lisa Westermair  1   2   3 , Marc Graf  1 , Christian G Huber  1
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Editorial: Assisted dying in persons with mental illness

Manuel Trachsel et al. Front Psychiatry. .
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Keywords: assisted dying/suicide; autonomy; decision-making capacity; ethics; mental illness; psychiatry; treatment resistance.

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