fine. the point is, they are dying of something else. starvation is not their cause of death. as you say, it happens all the time - it happened to people in my family, they weren't starved to death - they died from pneumonia, lung cancer, etc.
That's just not so. One of the cases in our family involved removal of a stomach tube. And my step daughter sees it all the time in the nursing home. We've had several freepers on these threads saying it's happened within their families...removal of the feeding tube.