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VSED - Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking
Table of Contents
1.  Conference / Symposium
2.  Court Cases
3.  Articles by Professor Pope
4.  Phyllis Shacter
5.  Other Resources

1. Conference / Symposium
Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Legal, Ethical, Religious, and Family Perspectives
Check out the proceedings from this world class, two-day conference on VSED.  The conference was hosted by Seattle University School of Law on October 14 and 15, 2016.

Through keynote addresses and panel discussions by clinicians, lawyers, ethicists, religious leaders, institutional administrators, and experienced family members, participants engaged in a wide range of challenging medical, legal, ethical, and caregiving issues about VSED:
  • Clinical findings: comfort and distress, duration, palliative supplements
  • Who uses VSED, for what reasons, in what circumstances
  • Narrative cases and family experiences
  • Legal questions: common law standing, statutory and regulatory inhibitions, permissible involvement of caregivers
  • Ethical questions: status of VSED re ‘suicide'; comparison with physician aid-in-dying and refusal of medically delivered nutrition & hydration; assistance from proxy decision makers
  • Religious and cultural perspectives
  • Dementia care: decision capacity, role of proxies, VSED by advance directive
  • Hospice and palliative care: normative-cultural compatibility, use in non-terminal situations
  • Institutional contexts: nursing home practice, abuse regulations, pre-admission understandings

VSED Conference Agenda (Oct. 2015)
2. Court Cases
In re Nora Harris (Jackson County, Oregon 2016) (order)
In re Nora Harris (Jackson County, Oregon 2016) (memo in support)
In re Nora Harris (Jackson County, Oregon 2016) (motion)
In re Nora Harris (Jackson County, Oregon 2016) (opposition)
Soni v. India (Rajasthan Aug. 2015)
Bentley v. Fraser Health (BC Ct App Mar. 2015)
Bentley v. Fraser Health - Appellant Opening Brief
Bentley v. Maplewood Seniors Care Society, 2014 BCSC 165
Bentley v. Fraser Health (BCSC Aug. 2013)
H Ltd v J (S Australia 2010)
Manoir de la Pointe bleue (1978) inc. c. Corbeil (Quebec 1992)
Bouvia v. Superior Court (Cal App 1986)
1984 New York Case
3. Articles by Professor Pope
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, 6(2) NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS 75-126 (2016) (symposium editor).

Prospective Autonomy and Dementia: Ulysses Contracts for VSED, 12(3) JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY 389-394 (2015).

Legal Briefing: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, 25(1) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 68-80 (2014) (with Amanda West).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option at the End of Life, 17(2) WIDENER LAW REVIEW 363-428 (2011) (with Lindsey Anderson).

4. Phyllis Shacter
Phyllis Shacter has one of the most comprehensive websites collecting all sorts of resources on VSED.  

5. Other Resources
 
Bibliography on VSED (June 2015)
Pope - slides from Seattle VSED conference (Oct. 2016)