I was irked to read his death was from "complications of Parkinson’s disease, his son Robert said" Not because of Parkinson's but because papers won't publish an obituary without mentioning the cause. The paper called his son while he was freshly grieving and asked a bunch of questions, including cause of death. When my grandmother died at 95 I answered the phone when the local reporter called and she wouldn't take "old age" as a cause of death. I wasn't in the best of moods (my grandmother having just died) so I got to say things like "if she was eaten by a shark at the age of 95 I would have told you." We settled on "complications from a stroke" which I now (many years later) dislike - it reads too softly and implies lingering. Better to have a concise fib or go big as in Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Wreckage Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship .