Sally...you couldn't be more right. Kudos. We ARE all terminal.
Okay, wait. Some people are arguing that it's okay to starve and dehydrate folks who are terminal. Um...that hurts. How about kindness, compassion, mercy and letting God take the terminal patient in his own time. It's quite possible that in those last few minutes HE gives them, they will turn to him for salvation...
Any way you want to look at it...dehydration is extremely, horribly painful. And being terminal does not make you less human.