That is a gross mischaracterization of my question (and my doubt of the claim), by omitting the essential qualifier of denial of sustenance and hydration being the primary agent of death in those hundred of patients a day.
I easily believe that hundreds of feeding tubes are removed from patients who are otherwise terminal, that is, they are terminal even with a feeding tube. But I don't believe hundreds of deaths are caused a day by denial of food and water.
The only reasonable reading of your replies to my question will take them as assertions that you do believe hundreds of people are starved to death each day (that starvation is the primary agent of death), and that you don't find ethical or legal issue with that.
I must be missing something.
Massive stroke patients cannot feed themselves. When the feeding tube is removed, they will surely die as they cannot be fed or hydrated any other way.
With a feeding tube, massive stroke victims can often live with years. Not in a good state, obviously, but live.
Forgive me for not getting it, but I truly don't understand your question about this matter.