A teenager with a severe eating disorder has died two months after a judge ruled that doctors could stop keeping her alive. The 19-year-old stopped being provided with ‘artificial nutrition and hydration’ in May.
The distressing case raised important issues about the rights of patients with complex mental health problems
The 19-year-old stopped being provided with ‘artificial nutrition and hydration’ in May by a court which considers people’s mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. The Court of Protection hearing raised serious and profound questions about the individual’s rights to make their own life and death decisions.
Experts had deemed ‘nothing more’ could be done to help her overcome a host of complex mental health issues and it fell to the court to make a ‘grave’ decision over whether she had the capacity to refuse food and water substitutes.
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