Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?

Abstract Jox and colleagues recently compared and contrasted two leading end-of-life exit options, namely voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and medical aid in dying (MAID). The authors argue that policymakers and medical societies should consider VSED and MAID in a uniform and consiste...

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Main Author: Thaddeus Mason Pope
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
Medical aid in dying
Assisted suicide
Suicide
Law
End-of-life
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0

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