When my sister was in hospice care, I asked the nurse who ran the home how long you can live without water, and she said a week at tops. Once my sister slipped into a coma, and wasn’t getting any sustenance, she lasted a bit longer than a week. She waited until her 70th birthday to die. We thought, maybe she didn’t want to die at the same age as our mother (69), and so waited to turn 70. Her birthday was September 2nd, so another reason I thought she waited until her birthday was because once she made it through the end of August her pension and social security checks for August, wouldn’t be cancelled.
So sad.