Caring for a dying person can be difficult.  Caring for a dying person in our culture, a culture increasingly focused on death, can be doubly difficult, especially when questions of hydration, feeding, and assisted death come up.   In our culture, we seem to easily forgo feeding.  The mantra has been that dehydration is a comfortable way to die.  And now, if things become uncomfortable we have sanctioned ending life with medical killing.

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