I am so very sorry to hear about your friend's suffering.
There seems to be so much more of this post-Pandemic.
Maybe people didn't go for care during the pandemic--fear of contagion?
I'm learning so much about terminology now. Before they were words. Now they are reality.
I read a quote from Aldous Huxley a little while ago. At the end of his life he gave advice:"... at the end...one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.” I guess that's the bottom line for all of us.