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voluntarily stopping eating and drinking: a standalone construct

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voluntarily stoppingeating and drinking1 CONSTRUCTVoluntarily stoppingQUILL · CLINICAL ETHICS

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Clinical ethics

a competent patient's deliberate decision to stop taking food and fluids in order to hasten death, compared here with other last-resort palliative options.

In clinical ethics, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking refers to a competent patient's deliberate decision to stop taking food and fluids in order to hasten death, compared here with other last-resort palliative options. This meaning comes from Quill (1997) in JAMA.[1]

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  1. Quill, T. E. (1997). Palliative Options of Last Resort. JAMA, 278(23), 2099. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1997.03550230075041

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