Attempted Suicides in the Elderly With Existing DNRs: An Emerging Geriatric Ethical Dilemma

Several critical clinical and ethical issues, including immediate treatment decisions, emerged in a case of a double suicide attempt by an elderly couple with a suicide pact and existing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) documentation. This case was complicated by the advanced age of both patients and their...

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Autores principales: Tran, Kelvin, Chen, Pauline, Korah, Tessy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489630
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12658
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description Several critical clinical and ethical issues, including immediate treatment decisions, emerged in a case of a double suicide attempt by an elderly couple with a suicide pact and existing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) documentation. This case was complicated by the advanced age of both patients and their family’s expectations and perception of mental illness in the geriatric population. In addition to the myriad of legal and ethical challenges that frequent the end-of-life care, the emerging trend of suicide pacts among the elderly, particularly with existing DNR documentation, warrants further exploration.
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spelling pubmed-78055232021-01-21 Attempted Suicides in the Elderly With Existing DNRs: An Emerging Geriatric Ethical Dilemma Tran, Kelvin Chen, Pauline Korah, Tessy Cureus Medical Education Several critical clinical and ethical issues, including immediate treatment decisions, emerged in a case of a double suicide attempt by an elderly couple with a suicide pact and existing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) documentation. This case was complicated by the advanced age of both patients and their family’s expectations and perception of mental illness in the geriatric population. In addition to the myriad of legal and ethical challenges that frequent the end-of-life care, the emerging trend of suicide pacts among the elderly, particularly with existing DNR documentation, warrants further exploration. Cureus 2021-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7805523/ /pubmed/33489630 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12658 Text en Copyright © 2021, Tran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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