Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to hasten death: may clinicians legally support patients to VSED?
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 consiste...
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BMC
2017-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0951-0 |