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A few quick points:
1) providing “food and drink” Is not as simple as some of you believe. Artificial feedings have been shown not to prolong life and are uncomfortbale requiring a PEG tube or at the very least a NG/OG tube. Hydration att he end of life isnt simple either as many of these patients have heart and/or renal failure in which case IV fluid can literaly cause the patient to drown in their own body.
2) Nothing the OP described is murder. Lo samed al dam reiacha maybe As SAm pointed out(which is bad)but lets tone down the rhetoric as it only serves to cloud rational discussion
3) We dont believe in prolonging life at all costs. Obviously thses are serious questions to be addressed to a rav. If we did then by definition the patient shouldnt be in hospice