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Is not wanting to eat much or drink. Try to feed anyway?

Why would you. He has lost control over his entire world. Would you take the very choice to EAT or not to from him as well? And for what reason. Is living on in this manner, some protracted long limbo of a life, important for you to maintain for some reason other than your love for a man who is fast disappearing?

I would leave this choice to him.
He has so few choices left.
I am so very sorry. For you BOTH.
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Do you have Hospice helping you?
If he is not on Hospice Please contact one of your choice and they will help you.
Offer food, do not force. And please do not consider a feeding tube.
You can try fluids and pureed foods but if he coughs or chokes or can not swallow stop. If he gets any food or fluid into his lungs that could be the start of Aspiration pneumonia.
As the body shuts down there is little need for nutrition and the digestive system slows to the point that it can no longer process food.
A person that is towards End of Life does not feel hunger like you and I do.
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Is it because it is too hard for him to chew and swallow that he's not wanting to eat or drink much?
Have you tried pureeing his foods and thickening his drinks with the product Thick It, as that may help?
You don't ever want to force someone to eat, but I think it's important to get to the bottom as to why he's not wanting much.
And of course when one is in the actual dying process they won't eat or drink much either, but it doesn't necessarily feel like your husband is near death from the little bit that you wrote.
But of course you can always bring hospice on board even if he's not dying yet, as they can help you with what may lie ahead.
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