This choice is also commonly accepted in the medical community. You must prepare for VSED. You can live for a long time without eating, but dehydration lack of fluids speeds up the dying process. Dying from dehydration is generally not uncomfortable once the initial feelings of thirst subside. If you stop eating and drinking, death can occur as early as a few days, though for most people, approximately ten days is the average. In rare instances, the process can take as long as several weeks.
It depends on your age, illness, and nutritional status. At first, you will feel the same as you did before starting VSED. Hunger pangs and thirst may occur the first day, but these sensations are usually tolerable; discomfort can be alleviated with mild sedatives or other techniques such as mouth swabs, lip balm, and cool water rinses. There is an analgesic effect caused by dehydration that may explain this response. With dehydration, people often need less pain medication, urinate less, have less vomiting, and breathe more easily due to decreased congestion.
After a few days, your energy levels will decrease, and you will become less mentally alert and sleepier. Most people begin to go in and out of consciousness by the third day and later become unarousable. Since dehydration will most likely be the cause of death, it is important not to drink anything once you start.
Even sips of water may prolong the dying process. We recommend that all medications be stopped except for those for pain or other discomfort. Stopping medications for heart problems or diabetes, for example, may speed up the process.
Note: With the exception of quotes, information in the following sections has been adopted from End of Life Washington. For some people with terminal illness, aggressive medical treatment may not be helpful and may prolong the dying process without improving quality of life. Under certain circumstances, treatments can increase suffering, ruin the remaining quality of life, or even shorten life.
A handful of reports over the years document the tales of people who literally ate themselves to death, or at least came dangerously close: Japanese doctors wrote in a case report that they believed it was a year-old man's "excessive over-eating" that caused his stomach to rupture, killing him. And this case report describes a similar "spontaneous rupture" in an adult's stomach "after overindulgence in food and drink.
Normally, your stomach can hold about one or one-and-a-half liters, Vreeman says -- this is the point you may reach if you overdo it tomorrow, when you feel full to the point of nausea. Pathologists' reports seem to suggest the stomach is able to do OK handling up to about three liters, but most cases of rupture seem to occur when a person has attempted to stuff their stomach with about five liters of food or fluid.
One of the reports Vreeman came across described the sad case of a woman whose stomach contained 12 liters of stuff. It takes a certain amount of misguided determination to manage to override your natural gag reflex and continue to eat and eat and eat , which is why, not surprisingly, reports of ruptured stomachs caused by overeating are most common in people with some sort of disordered eating, or limited mental capacity, Vreeman says.
And then once the stomach gets to this extremely distended point, the stomach muscles are too stretched out to be strong enough to vomit the food out. Speaking of strong stomachs, you'd best have one in order to read this next paragraph.
If vomiting isn't happening, all that food and fluid still has to go somewhere. Our digestive system runs from the entry point the mouth to the exit point the anus , but for the average person, what goes on between these two points is a mystery. The function of the digestive system is to turn food into useful currency for the body to burn, grow, or store for future use. This process begins in the mouth where the teeth, tongue, and salivary glands facilitate mechanical and chemical digestion to form a bolus a ball of food that fits down the oesophagus and into the stomach.
The stomach is a muscular bag that sits inside the abdomen and it is usually no bigger than your fist when empty. However, it has the capacity to expand and accommodate a much larger volume.
The specialized muscle is folded to allow expansion as the stomach fills, and it produces acid to help break food down as well as churning to mechanically smash up food. After food has passed through the stomach, it goes into the small intestine where digestion continues and the now broken-down nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream. The small intestine, which is about 20ft long, connects to the large intestine, which is about 6ft long.
The large intestine sees most of the water absorbed into the bloodstream and the remaining waste matter made into feces. We often feel very full after eating a large amount because there is a delay for signals from the stretching stomach to reach the brain. You may wonder why you go from feeling hungry to feeling full to bursting without any in-between feeling.
Our body has a very complex way of telling us when we are hungry and full; it requires a number of hormones that are produced in response to the presence or absence of food in the digestive system. If we get the amount of food we consume right, we have the feeling of satiety—fullness that suppresses the urge to eat. Two of the most important hormones are ghrelin and leptin. If we consider these hormones simplistically, ghrelin increases appetite and leptin decreases appetite.
They are produced predominantly in the stomach and fat cells respectively. Grehlin is usually at a high level before you eat and reduces afterwards.
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