‘Pope John Paul’s rapid physical deterioration - heart and kidney failure, shortness of breath, overwhelming fever and septic shock - represents a set of multi-organ failures that commonly occur in chronically ill older patients at the time of death, according to medical experts.

“There are a lot of different medical crises going on at once,” said Dr. Linda Emanuel, director of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Buehler Center on Aging.’

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