The Ethical Frontier

#32 - Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking | Thaddeus Pope


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Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights, healthcare decision making, and end-of-life options.

Website: https://www.thaddeuspope.com/home.html

Summary:

In this interview, we discuss the ethics of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), which is an end-of-life option that some people choose to cause their own deaths. One issue we focus on is VSED and advance directives and the possibility that a person may express contrary wishes (from their earlier self) when suffering from dementia.

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