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Terminal dehydration
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<p>Terminal dehydration is <a href="/facts/Dehydration/2RXJ8GGI">dehydration</a> to the point of death. Some scholars make a distinction between "terminal dehydration" and "termination by dehydration". Courts in the United States generally do not recognize prisoners as having a right to die by voluntary dehydration, since they view it as <a href="/facts/Suicide/j92cWcay">suicide</a>. </p>