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  1. Sedation accompanying treatment refusals, or refusals of eating and drinking, with a wish to die: an ethical statement.Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Dieter Birnbacher, Annette Dufner & Oliver Rauprich - 2024 - Ethik in der Medizin 36 (1):31-53.
    Background This paper addresses sedation at the end of life. The use of sedation is often seen as a last resort for patients whose death is imminent and whose symptoms cannot be treated in any other way. This paper asks how to assess constellations, where patients want to hasten their death by refusing (further) life-sustaining treatment, or by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and wish this to be accompanied by sedation. Argument We argue that sedation is ethically and legally (...)
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