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.
the last stage of life; a process that from a medical point of view begins when a person has a disorder that is untreatable and inevitably ends in death, or the final stages of a fatal disease. Dying is a process, whereas death is an event. The essential task of the dying person is to work through psychologic responses toward the reality of approaching death to a final and peaceful acceptance of that reality. Stages of Dying. Dr. Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, a psychiatrist, formulated a stage theory of dying.