ixchelkali - The thing is, they said she was diagnosed with cachexia by the coroner. If someone is starving to death, they should be getting a diagnosis when the problem starts, not after they've been allowed to die. It could just be bad reporting, but it sounds as if something, somewhere, went very badly wrong. There is no indication that she was offered any methods of feeding other than food on a spoon.
For anyone who isn't used to UK measurements, I'm going to repeat what her weight was in other measurements: 44lb or 20kg. If she were 5'4, say, then her BMI was 7.6, and if she were 4'11 (my height) her BMI would have been 8.9. A BMI below 18.5 is underweight, a BMI below 17.5 is likely to lead to a diagnosis of anorexia, the WHO considers anything below 16 to be starvation, and apparently people tend to die when their BMI gets to 12.5 or so. This is mind-boggling. I'm wondering whether the diagnoses of anorexia and cachexia were applied simply because she got so unimaginably thin. What on earth is happening when a woman is allowed to starve to death before any doctor bothers to examine her?