My granddad died from bowel cancer related complications this morning. I'm just glad it came so suddenly and he didn't have any long drawn out suffering - it was only 2 weeks ago, the weekend before he went into hospital, that I last saw him and he was perfectly happy then. Totally unaware of any of this and still enjoyed walking his dog round the park every day. So he was living his life properly up till the end - no withering away in a nursing home for him.