Refusal of Oral Feeding and Nutrition or a Way to Speed Up Dying Without Asking Permission: Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking in the End of Life

Cíntia Pinho-Reis; Manuel Luís Capelas

doi:10.14422/rib.i27.y2025.009

Autores/as

Cíntia Pinho-Reis Hospital-Escola da Universidade Fernando Pessoa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9917-6721
Manuel Luís Capelas Universidade Católica Portuguesa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8993-6854

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14422/rib.i27.y2025.009

Palabras clave:

interrupción voluntaria de la alimentación y la hidratación, cuestiones éticas, final de la vida, cuidados paliativos

Resumen

Los pacientes en fase terminal experimentan condiciones de vida que pueden volverse insoportables, lo que puede llevar al deseo de poner fin a su vida de manera anticipada. Una forma de hacerlo es mediante la interrupción voluntaria de la alimentación y la hidratación; sin embargo, esto también puede considerarse una forma de rechazo a la comida y el agua, similar a la negativa a recibir nutrición e hidratación artificiales.

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