Tue Jan 18, 2022 – 9:07 am EST
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying’s (ACAMAID) “Ethics Consultation Service” decided that it is ethical to assist the suicide of a person with anorexia nervosa.
The ACAMAID is an organization of medical practitioners who provide assisted suicide. According to the case report:
Female patient with anorexia nervosa requested aid in dying from her palliative care physician. She had participated in multiple inpatient and outpatient treatment programs for eating disorders over the past years without any sustained recovery.
Her eating disorder physician, who participated in the consultation call, felt that, although the patient had not accepted or agreed to the “gold standard” treatment of full weight restoration to evaluate brain function, she was terminally ill.
This physician as well as the consulting psychiatrist felt that the patient had decisional capacity. The patient was enrolled in hospice and lived with her family who supported her request to access aid in dying.
Such a description sounds like abandonment. Her palliative care physician and psychiatrist had given up on her and her family supported her dying by lethal drugs.
The decision was made even though the
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