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Originally Posted by Escort Rider
Please explain how you know that the withholding of food and hydration results in "terrible pain"? (I even agree with you that legalized euthanasia is long overdue. What I take issue with is your despcrition of hospice treatment.)
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As a person dies from dehydration ,his/her mouth dries out and becomes caked or coated with thick material.
The lips become parched and cracked. The tongue swells and could crack....eyes recede back into their orbits.
Cheeks become hollow, lining of the nose might crack causing nose bleeds. Skin begins to hang loose on body and becomes dry and scaly.
Urine would become highly concentrated leading to burning of the bladder and stomach lining dries out causing the person to experience dry heaves and vomiting.
Body temp becomes high, brain cells dry out, causing convulsions. Resp tract dries out causing thick secretions that can plug the lungs and cause death.
At some point the bodies major organs including the lungs heart and brain give out and death occurs.
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