The decision to voluntarily stop eating and drinking at the end of life is a choice a patient makes with the intent to hasten the dying process. No. This is a choice made by patients who are already at the end of their life. A dying person will naturally lose interest in food and fluids and progressively become weaker.
D. Death phase is the period in which the cells are dying at an exponential rate. E. The mathematics of growth-microbial growth can be described by certain mathematical terms: 1. Mean generation (doubling) time is the time required for the population to double. 2.
Microbial Death 1. Microbial Death can be defined as the permanent loss of reproductive capability of microbes. This means that the microbes are unable to grow or reproduce even under optimum growth conditions. 2. A population of microbes do not die instantaneously when exposed to an antimicrobial