I understand that cancer is more than one thing, but I don't see how death is more than one thing. Ceasing to exist; a state such that there is a prior conscious state but no future conscious state. There are many ways to define it, mostly equivalent.
If you mean that biological death is caused by multiple processes then sure, but I mean avoiding all of the causes of death.
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