Acceptability of an Advance Directive That Limits Food and Liquids in Advanced Dementia

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Volicer ◽  
Karen Stets
Keyword(s):  
Advance Directive ◽  
Advanced Dementia

scholarly journals Avoid Advanced Dementia with an Advance Directive for Stopping Eating and Drinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
pp. e502
Author(s):  
Thaddeus M. Pope ◽  
Timothy E. Quill ◽  
Paul T. Menzel ◽  
Judith K. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Advance Directive ◽  
Advanced Dementia

Dementia & Euthanasia: doubts regarding Advanced Dementia and Advance Directive

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Ton Vink
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Advance Directive ◽  
The State ◽  
Court Ruling ◽  
Advanced Dementia ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Alternative Reading

Severe doubts have arisen in the Netherlands about the applicability of an advance directive in the case of patients with advanced dementia requesting euthanasia. This applicability is firmly based on a widely accepted reading of the relevant subsection of the Dutch euthanasia law. I will question this reading and propose and defend an alternative reading. Arguments are supplied by the actual text of the subsection, by the moral doubts about ending the life of a patient who is hardly aware of what is happening, and by details from the first euthanasia case to go to court in the Netherlands, with the Supreme Court ruling of April 2020. As to euthanasia, alternatives are presented for the patient with a strong conviction and determination 'never to reach that state', the state of advanced dementia.

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