arvation or dehydration
because of lack of intravenous nutrition and water supply. This has raised issues
in euthanasia debates over the humanity of such practices. Tom Flynn, an editor
for Free Inquiry, wrote an account of his partner's grandmother which describes
how, after terminating medical treatment on his grandmother, Flynn and his
partner had to watch her slowly die over a period of two weeks. In a descriptive
account of the inhumanity of the situation, Flynn wrote how "Occasionally a
nurse or a family member would squeeze a few drops of water into her parched
and crackling mouth, but aside from a continuing dose of painkillers, tha
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