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My grandfather just went to sleep one night and never woke up. Mid 70's. It's clearly for 'some' reason but it wasn't some long drawn out illness like cancer or some sort of progressive congestive heart failure. Everyone just chalks that up to old age.

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So probably things like aneurysm, burst artery in the brain, heart attack, blood clots arriving to lungs and so on.

But then there is also this shutdown where body starts switching off organs one by one, and hospital personnel know this well since its visible to trained eye, and known as time of no return. My grandfather went away like that.

Yeah I'm not familiar with that way but it makes sense!

Old age is rough but I would rather go out that way than a long drawn out terminal illness.

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