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When teenagers refuse potentially life-saving eating disorder treatment

My daughter has anorexia and the treatment center wants to force-feed her but she's seventeen and keeps saying she'd rather die than gain weight.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent's duty to preserve life collides with the emerging adult's right to self-determination, even when that determination leads toward death.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Medical ethics across traditions?”

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