Terminal dehydration is dehydration to the point of death. Some scholars make a distinction between "terminal dehydration" and "termination by dehydration".[1] Courts in the United States[2] generally do not recognize prisoners as having a right to die by voluntary dehydration, since they view it as suicide.[2][3]
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