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Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ethically justified?

BACKGROUND: Physician-assisted dying has been the subject of extensive discussion and legislative activity both in Europe and North America. In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is often proposed, and practiced, as an alternative method of self-determined dying,...

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Autores principales: Jox, Ralf J., Black, Isra, Borasio, Gian Domenico, Anneser, Johanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29052518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0950-1