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How to Make Doctors Think About Death

End-of-life treatment guidelines would help families, physicians and nurses confront the inevitable with care and compassion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/sunday/health-death.html

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

Below are several in-depth resources pertaining to VSED.

Overview of VSED written by Judith K. Schwarz, PhD, RN
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option at the End of Life, by Thaddeus Mason Pope.
Dying Wish: a documentary about hospice patient Dr. Michael Miller who chooses to voluntarily stop eating and drinking.

End of Life Choices California provides information and personal support regarding California’s End of Life Option Act and all other legal end-of-life options to the medical community and to the public.