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"They relayed an example of a person who had spent their last days vomiting fully-formed faeces."

Sounds like a fully-formed exaggeration. Vomiting once or twice a day is not spending your last days vomiting. More frequent vomiting? The supply could not possibly meet the demand. Especially if the patient stopped eating.



You can listen to the account yourself at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00253mt, from around 25 minutes onwards. I found it convincing.


vomit is usually liquid or heavily digested stuff. feces is compacted and excreted. my imagination maybe a little specific here but so is the description "fully formed feces"


When there's no place for the compacted feces that's building up to go (due to a failure in peristalsis, for instance), it backs up into the the stomach, which naturally irritates the stomach and causes the person to vomit the contents, which includes their feces.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone.


If your intestines are obstructed, and the fecal matter has started forming, and it's trying to come out, where do you think it will come out from?


It doesn't sound particularly possible.


This is entirely possible. See copremesis, ICD10 code R11.13.

It usually occurs due to intestinal blockage or fistulae.


You are incorrect. You don’t have to be doing something 24 hrs a day to be spending your days doing it.

If you were a child who was raped every night by your father, you could absolutely say with honesty that you spent your nights getting raped.

What matters is - does the event significantly affect the rest of your day? Not - is the event happening non-stop. If that were the case, you could vomit every hour and still not be able to make the claim, since there are periods of rest.




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