I always understood starvation was an agonizing death. Can you imagine sitting there and watching your mother die through your conscious inaction?
She probably passed the time thinking about how much money she could make off her book.
That is an insulting conclusion. Read Post #6. My mom passed at aged 89 and we tried everything to get her to eat. She reached a point where she didn't want to eat or take any more pills. We are at peace because she now is. It was a sad time.
‘through your conscious inaction’ YES — and she was suspicious that someone was giving her mom icecubes! Wow, that would be really awful! For the daughter, I think. Not so for the mom, who could have, if she’d really wanted to, refused them. But maybe dying of thirst was more than she had bargained for, but since she could not SPEAK ....
Disgusting. And the woman has terrible feelings of guilt, ‘but IS ABLE (??) to ignore them” and push past her conscience to do something truly reprehensible.