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Is the voluntary refusal of food and fluid an alternative to assisted ...


Advice and care for patients who die by voluntarily stopping eating ...

Because there is a right to refuse food and water, palliative care of a patient undertaking VSED cannot be the crime of assisted suicide. Moreover, physicians ...

Nurses' Experiences with Hospice Patients Who Refuse Food and ...

Voluntary refusal of food and fluids has been proposed as an alternative to physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who wish to hasten death.

Is the voluntary refusal of food and fluid an alternative to assisted ...

Bernat and colleagues argue that suicide by voluntary refusal of food and fluid is an alternative to a physician-assisted suicide which “avoids moral ...

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking - Compassion & Choices

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the right of a decisionally-capable individual to refuse food and fluids, not everyone is understanding and ...

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED), Physician ...

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED), Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS), or Neither in the Last Stage of Life? PAS: No; VSED: It Depends. Lynn A ...

Alternative Options to Hasten Death for Terminal Illness

To voluntarily stop eating and drinking means to refuse all food and liquids, including those taken through a feeding tube, with the understanding that doing so ...

An Ethical Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide

Voluntary refusal of food and fluids: Attitudes of Oregon hospice nurses and social workers. International Journal of. Palliative Nursing, 10(5), 236-241 ...

Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluid (VRFF)

During the 1990s and later, there was a significant reference in the esteemed medical literature around the merits of refusal of treatment, voluntary assisted ...

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED)

A person who is mentally competent is entitled to refuse food and water, and to reject any invasive treatment, even though it will lead to their ...

Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ...

In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is often proposed, and practiced, as an alternative method of self- ...

Overview of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to hasten death

Unlike euthanasia, assisted suicide, or medical aid in dying (subsequently referred to as AID), VSED does not require lethal medication or a physician's order, ...

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED)

For many years, it has been a settled issue in both law and ethics that an adult with decision-making capacity who is unable to take food and fluids by mouth ...

Patient Refusal of Hydration and Nutrition: An Alternative to ...

PUBLIC AND scholarly debates on legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) have increased dramatically in ...

Clinical Guidelines for Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking ...

As the care of patients with serious illness increasingly emphasizes clarifying goals of care, exploring quality of life, and minimizing ...

The Role of Terminal Sedation and Voluntary Refusal of Food and ...

Terminal Sedation and Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids. Timothy E ... An alternative to physician-assisted suicide or voluntary active euthana- sia.

FF #379 Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking in the Terminally Ill

While they have similarities, fundamentally MAID requires a clinician directly assisting a patient hastening their death, whereas VSED can be ...

The Facts about Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

VSED differs from SED (stopping eating or drinking), which is governed by different laws that authorize healthcare professionals to withdraw fluids and ...

Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at the end of life – a ...

VSED is also an alternative to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) [14]. In connection with VSED, several ...

Voluntary dehydration as end-of-life option? - Relias Media

Voluntary refusal of food and hydration has been proposed as an alternative to PAS that would allow patients to hasten their deaths if they want, without ...

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Normative Comparison ...

Refusal of lifesaving treatment, and such refusal by advance directive, are widely recognized as ethically and legally permissible. Voluntarily stopping ...