Please can anyone with personal experience describe what it is like when a person has liquids withdrawn and dies essentially from dehydration. On one website it says it is not too uncomfortable a way to pass after the initial thirst wears off, but elsewhere I read differently and it sounds bad. I’ve even read it is dangerous as prolonged dehydration leads to kidney damage and other horrible things. So you could just end up in more pain with more problems before death? I am confused. Is the experience completely different depending on if a person has an illness already. A healthy person would suffer more, but with an illness it is different? I just want to know exactly what the experience is like day to day until the end.
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anonanon4 ·
26/10/2023 03:06
AutumnFroglets · 26/10/2023 00:21
My mother had fluids stopped and unfortunately she took 3 long weeks before she passed away. I found (and still do) that extremely difficult to come to terms with. After 6 days she was put on high dose morphine(?) where she was unconscious the rest of the time so she wouldn't feel any pain. I still visited every day but I just sat and chatted to her as though she was listening. It's hard.
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