This just in: Eluana Englaro, the Italian woman whose starvation and dehydration began last Friday, died today even as lawmakers were racing to pass a bill that might have saved her. (The legal situation is unclear.)
I find this surprising, as usually a death by dehydration of this sort takes something in the neighborhood of eight days or more.
May God have mercy on her soul and even more on that of her father who had sought this outcome, saying that she would not have "wanted to live" in her present state.