Thanks for answering. What a way to go, and what a waste of a life. I fortunately wasn't that close to her and it's been a while since she died. She gets mentioned occasionally and it feels like this nagging, unspoken conclusion that's hanging in the air: she ate herself to death. Somehow it irks me that this remains unspoken and that people act like they just happened to pop off, and that just happened to cause leakage and bleeding, when it's a sort of.... not suicide, but perhaps lethal self-neglect? She killed herself. She didn't mean to, but she did.