According to Paula Span’s article, “Complexities of Choosing an End Game for Dementia” analyze her idea of voluntarily stop eating and drinking (VSED), she uses of advance directives to withhold food and water as way of avoiding living along with dementia. The author mentioned that many people who diagnosed Dementia or Alzheimer has a right to make a decision; whether they want to end their lives by VSED or continue with the disease. She described the efforts of a retired lawyer, Jerome Medalie, to craft his own advance directive to allow his health care to withhold food and drink if he develops dementia. She used an example of Medalie that’s determination to allow for death with dignity, especially if patients are trying to kill their Alzheimer’s
