1,001 Ethical Issues with Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking
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Publication Date
10-17-2017
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Keywords
ethics, end-of-life, VSED
Disciplines
Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Palliative Care
Description
While the professional and public discussion has been focusing on assisted suicide for many years, another practice at the end of life has largely been neglected: voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED). The latter is increasingly being advocated as a presumably more humane and ethically less problematic alternative to assisted suicide. Dr. Jox challenges this view in this presentation.
Department
Biomedical Ethics
Department
Palliative Care
Conference / Event Name
Open Forum
Recommended Citation
Jox, Ralf J., "1,001 Ethical Issues with Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking" (2017). Current Videos. 2.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/ethicsvideos/2
Comments
Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., MACP Visiting Scholar