Ultimately isn't that what any cause of death does? "Accelerate death" from whenever the second-worst thing you had going on would have gotten you? I think I g

Ultimately isn't that what any cause of death does? "Accelerate death" from whenever the second-worst thing you had going on would have gotten you? I think I get what the parent comment was going for (i.e., that it only moved the date of death a little bit, as opposed to how the death of an otherwise healthy child would imply a date of death that moved a lot), but it's a weird way to say it.