ArticleBMC medicine2017
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
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- Carers' Perspective on Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking: A Systematic Mixed-Methods Review of Motives and Attitudes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Caring for patients during voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): experiences of a palliative care team in Germany.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
- "Discussion or silent accompaniment: a grounded theory study about voluntary stopping of eating and drinking in Switzerland".BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Late-life suicide in an aging world.Nature aging · 2022Review
- Family physicians' perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Article
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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 consistent manner given that clinician participation in both constitutes assisted suicide. This is a very controversial topic. Herein, it is questioned whether there really is disparate consideration of VSED and MAID and whether it is justified, bearing in mind that VSED is not assisted suicide.Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0950-1 .
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