eli5: Patients in hospice care are often unconscious due to high doses of sedative drugs, and are given no intravenous fluids, which leads to death by dehydration. Why is this done? Is there any difference between this and physician-assisted suicide?

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eli5: Patients in hospice care are often unconscious due to high doses of sedative drugs, and are given no intravenous fluids, which leads to death by dehydration. Why is this done? Is there any difference between this and physician-assisted suicide?

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In his final few days we stopped feeding my dh as he had requested. He was almost totally unconscious. I took a nap and a caregiver forced two ensures down him, prolonging his unconsciousness and death by days. why on earth is this seen as a good thing?

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