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

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...

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Autor principal: Pope, Thaddeus Mason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29052512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0
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description 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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spelling pubmed-56490752017-10-26 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED? Pope, Thaddeus Mason BMC Med Commentary 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. BioMed Central 2017-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5649075/ /pubmed/29052512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
title_fullStr Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
title_full_unstemmed Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
title_short Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
title_sort voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (vsed) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to vsed?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29052512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0
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