TY - JOUR T1 - Persistent vegetative state JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 132 LP - 132 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X483256 VL - 60 IS - 571 AU - Francesco Carelli Y1 - 2010/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/571/132.2.abstract N2 - Mick Leach, commenting on David Jewell's editorial on assisted dying,1 writes that ‘we are part of a wider global society that is in many ways becoming more uniform … that does not mean that we should necessarily always take the same route as other countries’.2I would like to underline two key cases that happened in the UK and Italy that have been described in their different aspects by Paquita De Zulueta and myself.3 I'd invite you … ER -