Maybe an aneurysm?
A friend of mine’s wife died of an aneurysm in bed at night. She woke him up moaning and writhing and holding her head. By the time the ambulance got there she was dead. She was about the same age.
My ex-wife’s dad suffered an aneurysm on the golf course. Technically, he died 3 days later only because they had him on life support until his family got to town. Then they pulled the plug and he was gone.
“Maybe an aneurysm?”
The young son of a family friend died of a brain aneurysm; he was fourteen years old. He started to complain of terrible headaches one afternoon and was dead the next day. So tragic.
One of my friends dropped dead from a brain anuerysm and fell over the table at her 36th birthday party in a restaurant, leaving an 8-year-old. I stil have a small gift she had given me years before for my wedding in 1968. It's in my kitchen and I think of her every day.
On the plus side, a relative of mine had the same in her 40s, but survived, although with paralysis on one side of her body. She has lived on for 25 years—it's amazing. Fortunately, she has a loyal husband and they have had adequate medical insurance.
Two other acquaintances had them and both recovered almost totally. You would never know.