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1) Mistichelli, J.: The Living Will or Death with Dignity: Legislations and Issues. Scope Note No. 2, Center for Bioethics Library, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (1983)
2) Society for the Right to Die, Handbook of Living Will Laws, 1981-1984, New York (1984)
3) President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Defining Death, A Report on the Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death, July, 1981, U. S. Government Printing Office
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