VSED : voluntary stopping eating and drinking

National Organizations working to expand end-of-life choices

• Compassion and Choices
• Death with Dignity

Publications

• Samuel Harrington, MD, in Washington Post, 2018

• New York Times, 2016

• Washington Post, 2019

• Mary Beth Bowen documented the final week of her mother Rosemary’s life in this 16-minute film

• Cantor, R. “Honing the Emerging Right to Stop Eating and Drinking.” Harvard Law Bill of Health. 2016.
• Cantor, R. “Can the Right to Stop Eating and Drinking be Exercised via a Surrogate Acting Pursuant to an Advance Instruction?” Harvard Law Bill of Health, 2017.
• Phylis Shacter’s book, Choosing to Die: a personal story