Advice and care for patients who die by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not assisted suicide
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DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0994-2
Abstract: BackgroundA competent patient has the right to refuse foods and fluids even if the patient will die. The exercise of this right, known as voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), is sometimes proposed as an… read more here.
Keywords: physician involvement; stopping eating; involvement vsed; assisted suicide ... See more keywords