"after A Short/brief Illness...", Is Sometimes Said Of A Celebrity Who Has Passed Away.

[sandyRoe]

What are these illnesses that can act so swiftly and with such finality?

[Sqad]

;-)......I think that the above is a euphemism for terminal cancer.

Apart from that it describes an infective process e.g pneumonia in any elderly person.

[237SJ]

It can be cancer that has already spread by the time it is diagnosed. I know at least 2 people who were dead within 2 months of diagnosis.

[Peter Pedant]

cardiac illnesses can be pretty brief
like a few minutes


//What are these illnesses that can act so swiftly and with such finality//
illnesses sandy are like the IRA - they can damage your health big time !

[hau kola]

Agreed. My sister was diagnosed and died within 6 weeks.

[BlackadderV]

...as did my younger brother last year. No problems until he collapsed with pneumonia and was found to be riddled with cancer. Gone within 8 weeks.

[237SJ]

Blimey - who removed those two remarks? Neither of them were breaking any Site Rules.

[jd_1984]

She had previously had Non Hodgkins lymphoma
Possibly this returned very aggressively?

[237SJ]

jd - I think it was breast cancer that went to the brain.

[jd_1984]

Oh, I am going off a report I saw online. She had asked for an extension to her leave very recently as well due to "personal issues" according to a report

[Sqad]

237..Peter Pendant used a simile involving the IRA and Anneasquith questioned it's relevance.

All very minor stuff..........? need for removal at all.

[237SJ]

I read them sqad. I did like PP`s comment about the heart attack though. I know I shouldn`t have but "black" sense of humour and all that..

[Old_Geezer]

Sad that in this day & age we don't seem to be able to perform "MOTs" on each of us to catch stuff way before it is too late. I appreciate we all have to die from something (unless science makes a major leap forward at some point) but perhaps we can avoid going before we are ready & accepting, some day.

[anneasquith]

ah, was in b&s not chatterbank !

[bednobs]

we CAN perform "MOTs" on individuals in this day and age

[Old_Geezer]

Not really. One is forever being told to stay away from companies flogging them as they pick up too many false positives, or some such difficulty.