Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients

Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients

Some persons with advanced disease but no significant cognitive impairments consciously decide to stop taking food and fluids orally, even though they remain physically able to do so. The question is to what extent voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) may be considered an expression of a...

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Main Authors: Andrea Rodríguez-Prat, Cristina Monforte-Royo, Albert Balaguer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
Subjects:
palliative care
advanced patients
end of life care
qualitative research methods
wish to hasten death
voluntarily stopping eating and drinking
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2018.00294/full

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