More to it than that. My brother died of liver failure due to untreated hep c and continuing to drink. Which in the long run really didn’t matter since he left the disease untreated.
He turned down a liver transplant. He was far along, but also, under those circumstances the transplant usually later goes bad because of the hep c.
Also, little known, there is a surprising percentage of liver recipients who get hep c from the new liver. A lot of livers for transplant are from hep c donors. The medical establishment thinks it is better to get a liver with hep c than to die from one’s own diseased liver. Hobson’s Choice.
Nasty stuff. Nasty way to go.
He was not forthcoming, but from the time line I extrapolated that he had hep c for at least several decades and for whatever reason refused to acknowledge it and get treatment. He claimed to the end that he did not know he had it, but from what we could see in retrospect we believe he had to know.
When he went for physicals his Liver Enzymes would have been out of control, yes he had to know, maybe he just did not care. They have a good treatment now for Hep C that works.