When somebody dies of cancer, what exactly is the actual reason the body stops working?
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Cancer is like weeds in a garden.
You have roses, tomatoes, pomegranate trees (your vitals) in your garden (your body). The weeds (cancer cells) invade and start taking over resources (new blood vessels, nutrients get diverted more to cancerous growths) and slowly over time cause your roses, tomatoes and pomegranate to die (lack of blood flow to vitals). The weeds serve no purpose at all other than to grow uncontrollably and use up much needed resources.
Usually you would spray the weeds with herbicide (your immune system is constantly killing cancer cells) to kill them before they can proliferate but if you don’t habitually spray it in your garden (weakened immune system perhaps or other causes), the weeds will eventually overwhelm the garden.
You can call in garden services (cancer surgery/chemo) to clean the weed nightmare up in the hopes of saving your garden and some of the time they will permanently eliminate the weed infestation (cancer in remission) but other times the weeds will come back (recurrent cancer), sometimes requiring multiple garden services to treat the weed problem.
Bottom line is that the weeds will slowly kill your garden of useful plants to you leaving you with nothing to keep alive of value and once winter comes and the weeds die off due to lack of resources, you are left with dead plants entirely (you die).
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