I'm not getting you wrong and I said the exact same thing to my husband today.
It's like people knew that people got taken off machines. But they never knew people had feeding tubes removed and allowed to "starve".
You just came to this realization? I think what you describe is exactly true. People did not know that it is medical routine to deny otherwise healthy bodies food and water in order to cause the bodies to die.
In fact, I'm still skeptical of the claim. But judging from the medical people posting here, I am rethinking my impression of medical "ethics."