Overview of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to hasten death

: Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is a means of hastening death. Unlike euthanasia or medical aid in dying, which are available only certain jurisdictions with assistance from health care professionals, the ability to die by voluntarily determined ongoing patient choice, although clinical caregiver support recommended. Few studies have examined incidence patients choosing stop drinking; Netherlands United States suggest this route concerns about both physical existential suffering. This article presents an overview drinking, including guidance for clinicians, legal permissibility, ethical discussions whether act constitutes suicide how clinicians might respond requests information support.