Now They Want You to Starve Yourself to Death

In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via self-starvation and dehydration — known in euthanasia movement parlance as “voluntary stop eating and drinking” (VSED) — doctors should be allowed to “terminally sedate” the person trying to die when necessary to prevent intractable suffering.Patients who commit VSED are often not terminally ill. In fact, euthanasia organizations promote self-starvati