Hmm...they can always put down “multiorgan failure.”
(My mom’s COD many years before COVID).
Families have difficulty acknowledging it. I am witness.
Hey, we are not getting out of this place alive. Put aside religious preconceptions for a bit. A cancer can metastasize into multiple organs. I once saw an Octogenarian with a skin disorder that was horrible to regard. He was in Hepatic failure, Renal failure, Lung failure,Heart failure, don’t forget the skin, and his entire body was shutting down. He was in 5 Organ failure. It was a miracle that he had lived as long as he had with so many afflictions.
We Coded him for hours. Finally, he passed.
The family blamed the Attending Physician. They simply were unwilling to accept the reality that the Patient was terminal for months.