The withholding of nutritional support from patients is one of the most controversial issues in
modem medical ethics and law. Withholding support from a consenting, terminally ill patient …

Tony Bland, a teenaged English soccer fan, who was crushed in the Hillsborough football
stadium disaster on April 15, 1989, suffered massive anoxic brain damage during that event …

Issues involving the withdrawal of life support have recently beenthe subject of national
debate. As the US Supreme Court struggles with the Nancy Cruzan case, the public has …

This paper discusses the morality and legality of withholding food and fluid in terminal and
other cases. Is the provision of nutrition strictly for the purpose of sustaining life, a medical …

The ethics of dealing with the provision of nutrition has been greatly complicated by
technological advances. Seventy percent of all deaths in the United States include a …

One of the most difficult ethical questions in clinical practice, and one that will have a
significant impact on hospice, is whether fluid and nutritional suport should be withheld from …

The decision of whether to withdraw or withhold nutritional support in terminally ill patients
presents a multifaceted ethical dilemma. Any decision must, of course, be in the patient's …

The following guidelines were offered by the Bishops of the New Jersey Province to their
priests regarding the moral propriety of withholding or withdrawing nutrition and hydration …

Life would be so much easier for ethicists as well as for ordinary mortals if all issues were
black and white. The ethicist may resort to the expedient of creating his own universe of …

Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining care are daily events in most hospitals and
long-term care facilities. When the life-sustaining care includes artificial nutrition and …