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When someone dies of starvation, the cause of death is severe electrolyte imbalance or kidney, heart, or lung failure. These are due inadequate intake of nutrients and subsequent reduction in available energy resources.

After the fat stores are exhausted (lipolysis), the body begins to break down proteins from skeletal muscles and other viscera (including smooth muscle) in a process called proteolysis, which is a signal that the body will be shutting down soon. The textbook I'm reading from states that starvation is treated with either enteral (by mouth or by tube into the stomach/gastric tract) or parenteral (by IV infusion) nutrition. Such a program of nutrition would be at the direction of a physician or dietitian.

Additionally, the stomach acids will break down food even after the person is dead, but this doesn't affect the most important part of caloric intake: Absorption from the GI lining. The breakdown of food into chyme is only part of the work of digestion, with the greater part being the regulation and maintenance of nutrient absorption, especially in the small intestine. The problem with starvation is hypoplasia and atrophy of the GI tract (and other places), which will severely reduce the ability of the body to absorb nutrients.

Source: My patho textbook