ARTIFICIAL NUTRITION AND HYDRATION

South Korea’s advance directives program goes into effect

Xavier Symons | 10 February 2018 | Comments

tags: advance directives, artificial nutrition and hydration, law, south korea, withdrawal of treatment

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Woman in minimally conscious state should be allowed to die – UK court

Xavier Symons | 11 November 2017 | Comments

tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, best interests, law, uk, withdrawal of life support

A British High Court judge has ruled that an elderly woman in minimally conscious state should have artificial feeding withdrawn

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Euthanasia back on the boil in France

Michael Cook | 27 June 2014 | Comments

tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, euthanasia, France

Euthanasia is once more on the front page of French newspapers with two high-profile case in the courts.

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Bioethicists debate as curtains close on Casey Kasem

Xavier Symons | 20 June 2014 | Comments

tags: advance directives, artificial nutrition and hydration, end-of-life care

The passing of disc jokey Casey Kasem has generated a remarkable volume of bioethical commentary. Artificial nutrition was withdrawn from an unconscious Kasem in light of an advance directive he had written. The directive was vague, and some of Kasem’s family objected to move.

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Nutrition and hydration often withdrawn without consent in Belgium

Xavier Symons | 22 March 2014 | Comments

tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, assisted suicide, Belgium, euthanasia

A recent study in the Journal of Medical Ethics has found that in Belgium decisions to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) rarely involve patient consent.

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Artificial nutrition and hydration should normally be withdrawn, says doctor

Michael Cook | 02 March 2012 | Comments

tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, bioethics, PVS

An American doctor argues in the latest issue of the leading journal Bioethics that artificial nutrition and hydration should be withdrawn from all patients in a permanent vegetative state – unless there is clear evidence that they want to be kept alive.

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Food and water are medical treatments, say Canadian ethicists

Michael Cook | 09 April 2011 | Comments

tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, Canada

It is ethical to withhold and withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from children, says the Canadian Paediatric Society. In a bioethics position statement, it argues that medically assisted food and water are medical treatment, not an essential part of humane care.