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
Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients
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DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00294
Abstract: Some persons with advanced disease but no significant cognitive impairments consciously decide to stop taking food and fluids orally, even though they remain physically able to do so. The question is to what extent voluntarily… read more here.
Keywords: eating drinking; hasten death; wish hasten; ethical challenges ... See more keywords