When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. They had to leave or starve to death. Columba did eventually starve herself to death. Eventually he became badly sunburned and began to starve. Phaedra explains that she must starve herself and die with her honour intact. The people of Tenochtitlan began to starve and weaken. He promises to starve himself to death instead. He had already told his staff that they might all starve to death. Kerbogha then changed tactics to trying to starve the crusaders out. Bleached corals continue to live but begin to starve after bleaching. The insects starve and die within a few days. Those unable to find work had a stark choice&colon; starve or break the law. He planned only to starve it out and not to storm it. She was determined to wait out the thief, maintaining that he could starve or surrender. Germans tried to starve out Leningrad in order to break its resistance.