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  1. Faculty of Management and Technology, Faculty of Health and Welfare, University Colleges Leuven-Limburg, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Tom Mortier

  2. Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    René Leiva

  3. School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Raphael Cohen-Almagor

  4. Centre for Ethics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Willem Lemmens

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Mortier, T., Leiva, R., Cohen-Almagor, R. et al. Between Palliative Care and Euthanasia. Bioethical Inquiry 12, 177–178 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-015-9635-7

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