So Before IV’s and Feeding Tubes existed then what? You think you have the right to force someone to eat or drink even if they choose not to do so. YOU DON’T.
Not only that, you can’t.
BTW, when my father, 91, was in his declining days in Home Hospice in my home, he was successfully tempted with chocolate ice cream to the end.
I was praying the Psalms over him when he died. His last word was Amen. Or it could have been Ice cream.
No “heroic interventions”. No “extraordinary treatments.” He went very peacefully when God called him called him. Nobody starved him, slighted him, or shoved him.