title: Advance directives are the solution to Dr Campbell's problem for voluntary euthanasia.
abstract: Dr Neil Campbell suggests that when patients suffering extremes of protracted pain ask for help to end their lives, their requests should be discounted as made under compulsion. I contend that the doctors concerned should be referred to and then act upon advance directives made by those patients when of sound and calm mind and afflicted by no such intolerable compulsion.
authors.affiliation: University of Reading.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flew
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D003657:Decision Making; D004739:England; D005065:Euthanasia; D033101:Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D028761:Withholding Treatment