the very thought of her starving and dehydrating is appaling to me.
If you had fully read this and the other threads on the subject you would realise that this is not the issue.
When a person is dying the need for food and water switch off. What has been happening is that her ability to switch off has been denied by artificially feeding her. And that has been the case for many years.
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