[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think there's ("yet") a legal "right" to insist on being starved to death by your doctor. If the bioethics-expert/perverts do indeed have, or can get, a ruling that says starvation is a "medical treatment" and thus a "right," I don't think they can in any case require a doctor to commit murder.

Of course, neither can the hospital or nursing home keep the patient there against their will. Therefore if someone insists on death by starvation/dehydration, they'll have to get transferred from Sacred Heart Hospital to "Skinny Sam's Starvation Emporium d/b/a/Compassion and Choices" for the final wretched days.

As far as I know.

Some better-informed FReepers is invited to jump in and correct me if I'm wrong.

[livius]

I’m not sure you could order yourself starved to death, legally, anymore than you could order yourself to be sold into slavery (specifically a legal impossibility).

But have no fear, the death advocates are working on it.