SED by AD? Prepare to Respect the Person Here and Now

In a recent issue of JAMDA, Haimowitz and Pope applaud the decision of AMDA to retire its 2019 Statement on Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives (SED by AD).1 Their criticism of the 2019 paper is based largely on their characterizing it as advocating for “hard paternalism,” placing the clinician's idea of beneficence above patient autonomy.1,2