Guest marks doesn't know whereof he speaks.

Ask end of life care providers if removing feeding and hydration tubes causes the patient pain, and they will all say the same thing. Not when the patient is properly sedated, and is provided with proper care of the mouth (swabbing and caring for dry lips). Our bodies actually have a process for natural death, which is precipitated by the person no longer eating and drinking. People on the verge of death just stop doing those things, their body systems begin to shut down, and within days, in an instant, they are gone. Peacefully. It isn't difficult to watch in terms of the patient, because they are ready to die.