Thaddeus Mason Pope
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Court Decisions on VSED
This page collects court decisions on contemporaneous VSED. For court decisions on advance VSED, see
this page
.
United States
Thor v. Superior Court (Cal. 1993)
Bouvia v. Superior Court (Cal App 1986)
G. Ross Henninger v Plaza Health (NY 1984)
Australia
H Ltd v J (S Australia 2010)
Canada
In re Wiebe (College Physicians BC,Feb. 2018)
Manoir de la Pointe Blueu (Quebec 1992)
United Kingdom
R (JJ) v Spectrum Community Health CIC [2022] EWHC 2440 (Admin)
Court of Protection No. 13913343 (April 2022)
PH v Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (COP Mar. 2022)
India
Soni v India (India Supreme Court) (stayed Rajastahn judgment, pending)
Soni v India (Rajastahn High Court Aug 10, 2015)
Soni v. India (Rajasthan Aug. 2015)
Cases Not in Court
Most cases do not end up in court. I collect some of these in
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking
, 6(2) NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS 75-126 (2016) (symposium editor).
Below are PDFs of some other publicly reported VSED cases.
Dr. Robert Edis, Western Australia Joint Select Committee (2018)
Bruce Buchanan, Western Australia Joint Select Committee (2018)
Max Kamien, Western Australia Joint Select Committee (2018)
Western Australia Parliament Joint Select Committee on End of Life Choices 2018