I flatly do not believe that thousands of people a day die with the initiating and primary cause being starvation. You can believe it if you want, but I'd need a bit more evidence. The CDC must have a "starvation" column in their charts.
It's happened in our relatively small family twice. My stepdaughter works in a nursing home; it happens there nearly every week. She gets very attached to her patients and calls to tell me whose family is letting them go because they had a massive stroke or other medical conditions for which there is no hope and no one wants their family members to be kept alive on machines.
I fail to see the relevance of "being kept on machines" to the facts of this case.
What the House and doctors talked about what that thousands of times a day people are "let go". They are removed from machines and feeding tubes are removed. Many states, including Florida, consider feeding tubes to be life saving equipment.
And we'll just have to agree to disagree about some things, I can see. I'm heading out with my husband.