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Professor Pope Publications on VSED
This page collects my publications on VSED. These are books and articles. See the separate conference page for slides. See my blog for other commentary on VSED. 

Book by Professor Pope
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford University Press 2021) (with Timothy Quill, Paul Menzel, Judith Schwarz).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I. VSED by People with Decision-Making Capacity
  1. Illustrative Cases
  2. Clinical Issues
  3. Ethical Issues
  4. Legal Issues
  5. Institutional Issues
  6. Best Practices, Enduring Challenges and Opportunities

Part II. Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directive
  7. Illustrative Cases 
  8. Clinical Issues
  9. Ethical Issues
  10. Legal Issues
  11. Institutional Issues
  12. Best Practices, Enduring Challenges and Opportunities

Appendices

Appendix A: Recommended Elements of an Advance
Directive for Stopping Eating and Drinking
(AD for SED)

Appendix B: Sample Advance Directives for SED

Appendix C: Death Certificates

Appendix D: Position Statements and Clinical Guidance

Appendix E: Personal Narratives

Appendix F: Glossary


VSED BOOK - TOC and front pages
Another book by Professor Pope
I also discuss VSED in The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2023) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara). (link).

Articles by Professor Pope
Avoid Advanced Dementia with an Advance Directive for Stopping Eating and Drinking, 134(9) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE E502 (2021) (with Timothy Quill, Paul Menzel, Judith Schwarz).

Assistance with Eating and Drinking Only When Requested Can Prevent Living with Advanced Dementia, 20(11) JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (JAMDA) 1353-1355 (2019) (with Ladislav Volicer and Karl Steinberg).

Avoiding Late-Stage Dementia with Advance Directives for Stopping Eating and Drinking, KevinMD (October 6, 2019).

Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD) in the ALF and PALTC Setting, 20 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (JAMDA) (forthcoming 2019) (with Ladislav Volicer, Karl E. Steinberg, and Stanley A. Terman).

Whether, When and How to Honor Advance VSED Requests for End-Stage Dementia Patients, 19(1) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 90-92 (2019).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking Is Legal—and Ethical—for Terminally Ill Patients Looking to Hasten Death, ASCO POST (June 25, 2018).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Psychiatric, Ethical and Legal Aspects, 178 JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE 123-127 (2018) (with Timothy Quill, Linda Ganzini, Bob Truog).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Hasten Death: May Clinicians Legally Support Patients to VSED? 15 BMC MEDICINE 187 (Oct. 2017).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, 6(2) NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS 75-126 (2016) (symposium editor).

Prospective Autonomy and Dementia: Ulysses Contracts for VSED, 12(3) JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY 389-394 (2015).

Legal Briefing: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, 25(1) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 68-80 (2014) (with Amanda West).

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option at the End of Life, 17(2) WIDENER LAW REVIEW 363-428 (2011) (with Lindsey Anderson).

Other Materials by Professor Pope
Pope - 7-page outline for Minnesota CLE (June 2018)