A very good friend of mine in the UK officially requested his death certificate.
The causes of death, if I remember correctly, were:
Stomach bleeding, something else (sorry), and obesity.
We were trying to understand if they put obesity on there just because he was obese decades before, or if he was obese again at that time. But we're pretty sure he put the weight back on. He died in Warwick
Fasting for 382 days as a medical intervention isn't learning how to actually live with a stable healthy relationship to your food environment. The behavioral patterns leading to the intervention initially will very likely resume afterwards.
This reminds of a personal experience, story time:
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An obese friend of mine visited the ER for a persistent respiratory issue. Through negligence of the hospital staff, he found himself in an emergency abdominal surgery with a perforated colon.
What started as a relatively casual ER visit turned into an extended many-month ordeal under hospital care, mostly bedridden. As the months ticked by his weight dropped to fairly close to normal. He was still a bit overweight, but easily over a hundred pounds lighter with only hospital food in controlled portions to live off of.
I clearly recall visiting him in the hospital in the days approaching his release, and how proud he was for the weight loss. He was so ignorant about his relationship with food and how significant a factor it was for the hospital's control being responsible for his weight loss vs. his own chosen lifestyle. I didn't say anything at the time, but was already a bit nervous about what would happen when he left the hospital's care, with a severely compromised abdomen still recovering.
Fast-forward to a year later, and he had become more obese than before starting this ordeal. No doubt his eating problems were exacerbated by the depression of his life situation. The last I heard he needed abdominal reconstructive surgery, and had developed an intestinal hernia from the substantial size increase while still recovering. Apparently he couldn't have the procedure done until he lost the weight again.
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