When somebody dies of cancer, what exactly is the actual reason the body stops working?

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When somebody dies of cancer, what exactly is the actual reason the body stops working?

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There are a lot of great answers already. I would like to add to that cancers generally make people feel very bad in the later stages. There is, generally speaking, a lot of pain, nausea, tiredness en sometimes confusion.
If there isn’t a acute moment that kills someone (e.g. severe bleeding, rampant infections with sepsis, stroke), people tend to lose their appetite, start drinking less, sleeping more and requiring an increasing dose of opioids (morfine-like painkillers). Eventually most of these patients die of exhaustion or dehydration.