Something horrible man. He may not have been able to feed himself, give himself water, forgot he already took his meds and od'd, just could be a bazillion different things.
It really is disheartening knowing how much Wilder and Robin Williams suffered before dying after being so consistently hilarious in their lives.
It really is disheartening knowing how much Wilder and Robin Williams suffered before dying after being so consistently hilarious in their lives.
But say someone forgets to hold a railing and falls - cause of death would probably be listed as a fall. But as you said, if they starved, it probably wouldn't be listed as "starvation" because people wouldn't understand how that could happen. More than likely, starvation would only occur with someone who was alone / unattended or didn't have money for medical treatment (where they'd stick an I.V. in them).
All these are reasons why I'm wondering. In the past they would've just said he died of old age, but mentioning Alzheimer's (but not mentioning the direct cause) is probably a way of raising awareness for the disease.