Citation

Schmidhuber M. Aktuelle Ernahrungsmedizin 2019; 44(1): 43-45.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.1055/a-0822-7013

PMID

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Abstract

Voluntary refusal of food and fluids, also known as fasting to die, is a controversial phenomenon in medical and nursing setting. It is a free responsible decision of a patient in ability of reason. However physicians, nurses and relatives could have an ethical problem with this decision. Sometimes this decision is connected with suicide. In the following article I will argue why fasting to die could be a decent leave from life and why fasting to die is letting die and not suicide. © 2019 Georg Thieme Verlag.All right reserved.

Language: de

Keywords

human; suicide; food intake; medical ethics; nurse; death; physician; terminal care; treatment refusal; relative; fluid intake; Article; patient decision making; decent dying; fasting; fasting to die; free responsible decision