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The title of this article is odd. It's almost as if it implies the US was somehow responsible for his death.

He was traveling to the US for cancer treatments and suddenly died between treatments while in the US. There's no indication as to what killed him, you would presume the cancer but the title of the article would imply it was by virtue of the fact that he was on US soil.

Did I miss something?

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Probably an artifact of the article being in British media. We've sanded it out to avoid further snags.

Looks like "The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language" applies.

Origin unclear but according to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_language attributed to George Bernard Shaw.

I read the original and did not pick up the nuance until it was pointed out; then the alternative reading was also entirely reasonable even if it was not my first understanding. The cultural ambiguity of English at it's best.

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