[heartwood]

A reasonably healthy,and reasonably well nourished,adult takes weeks to *starve* to death.

He did.

[Gay State Conservative]

He did.

As I said,it takes weeks.Seventy days in this guy's case.And,according to the piece he staved *and* froze...the freezing being a complicating factor.This piece is about being stranded on a snowy highway which,I assumes,wasn't in the middle of nowhere as this guy's stretch of road.