Life-Threatening Malnutrition in Very Severe ME/CFS (2021)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070213/
Caring for the Patient with Severe or Very Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2021)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8544443/
There are not many mortality studies and few ME patients have had comprehensive autopsies —
Mortality in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (2016)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2016.1...
Causes of Death Among Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2007)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0739933060080376...
Somewhat harrowing reading is Whitney Dafoe's account of becoming extremely severe —
Extremely Severe ME/CFS—A Personal Account (2021)
I'm not questioning whether he suffered from ME/CFS but mortality is not reported in the Stanford data or what I've heard described of the syndrome.
It's hard to wrap my head around ME/CFS as he has described it being causative of organ failure. Did something happen? Is this a consequence of the therapeutic he tried?
Organ failure in a 37 year old without a history of end-organ dysfunction or acutely inciting event like a toxicity is incredibly unusual.