Nurses' Experiences with Hospice Patients Who Refuse Food and Fluids to Hasten Death
- 24 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (4) , 359-365
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa035086
Abstract
Voluntary refusal of food and fluids has been proposed as an alternative to physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who wish to hasten death. There are few reports of patients who have made this choice.Keywords
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