I don't know why this is downvoted. I also have Crohn's and it is word-for-word true.
Sudden death of Crohn's is something I cannot imagine and I've been trying for good 5 minutes now.
My Crohn's is under control and has always been fairly mild, but having spent a week in hospital when it was at its worst I can see how this could happen, I lost enough blood for the doctors to be very concerned. A severe flare can definitely be life threatening.
I'm cherry picking a stat from this article, but it doesn't appear totally out of the realm of possibility to die from Crohns.
It is well accepted that Crohn's disease is associated with a small but real risk of death. Population based reports from Sweden,1,2 Denmark,3 and Italy4 indicate that Crohn's disease patients have a higher mortality rate than expected, although at least one notable exception from the UK demonstrated survival similar to the general population (table 1 1).
Maybe it's downvoted for the "guarantee he's alive" - Even if sudden death from Crohn's is unlikely, would suicide also be plausible, if the stolen funds were starting to catch up with him?
Perhaps I should’ve said “he definitely didn’t die of Crohns somewhere in India” - yeah, I admit he could be dead by this point for various other reasons.
As for some other comments - until you’re very old, I think the statistics are that you’re much more likely to die from a surgery that tries to better manage your Crohns than of anything Crohns can cause.
Sometimes the surgeries can go very badly very quickly for no rhyme or reason & lead to bowel rupture which is very not good. Not that this is common - just more common than “dying” of Crohns.
I've seen it stated that he died of "complications from Crohn's disease" which in my mind would include a surgery gone wrong. I had an unexpected surgery which required anesthesia during a trip abroad myself, it's likely the chances of death from the surgery or event itself were somewhere in the 0.1-1% range.
I'm otherwise young-ish and healthy, and didn't know I had Crohn's before this happened, though I've had intermittent digestive issues that I thought "weren't a big deal" through most of my adulthood. I can only imagine someone who already knew they had Crohn's had it worse than myself.
There are really good treatments for it these days. People live with it relatively comfortably when they can get the right medicine, while in the past they would have died early painful deaths.
