People that buy that shit are people who have no idea how medicine as a science actually works. Suppose I'm in the woods, and i'm fat, diabetic, have high blood pressure and get attacked by a bear and I end up in the hospital from said bear attack. My blood pressure skyrockets, my heart is stressed from the trauma and it stops and they aren't able to restart it. I technically died because my heart stopped, but it stopping was caused by the damage from the bear attack, so I died from a bear attack.
A less convolute argument: I get stabbed. The stabbing doesn't kill me, but I lose too much blood and end up dying in the ambulance. It's going to go on my report that I died of a stabbing even though the knife isn't what killed me.
Cancer works the same way. Most people don't die from the cancer. They die from what the cancer does to their body and their organs. Their Kidneys fail, their liver fails, or their lungs or whatever. The cause of death is still fucking cancer.
Your second example makes no sense. If that's the case then no person in history has ever been stabbed to death. ---
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