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Post by Mau Furlong on Mar 25, 2021 16:06:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know of anyother cats dying from some kind of cancer other then Ravenpaw?
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Mar 25, 2021 16:11:07 GMT -5
Pretty sure Shellheart was confirmed to die of some sort of cancer, or maybe it was something else but it's been a while since I read it.
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Post by Shadowflight on Mar 25, 2021 16:12:53 GMT -5
did you know leopardstar died of diabetes?
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Post by Mau Furlong on Mar 25, 2021 16:16:04 GMT -5
did you know leopardstar died of diabetes? Yes i did...
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Post by 🔥Firestar🔥 on Mar 25, 2021 16:16:58 GMT -5
Maybe Tawnyspots? They said he had a stomach tumor.
It's not much releated to the heart, but it's atleast in the stomach.
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Post by wheeledwarrior on Mar 25, 2021 18:16:36 GMT -5
I believe Bluestar’s father Stormtail also died of cancer in his stomach. Goosefeather died from a tumor in his brain, as well, according to the Authors.
EDIT: it’s specifically stated to be a brain infection, but that was only what Vicky believed. His actual cause of death is stated to be unspecified. So I don’t know if that counts.
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Mar 25, 2021 18:20:39 GMT -5
Pretty sure Shellheart was confirmed to die of some sort of cancer, or maybe it was something else but it's been a while since I read it. i recently re-read parts of crookedstar's promise, and it's said shellheart had a lump somewhere, so it was a cancer that was visible on the outside.
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Post by Wolfyy- on Mar 25, 2021 19:34:06 GMT -5
Shellheart's lump was in his belly.
Also Stormtail died from Greencough.
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Post by tallshadowstar on Mar 25, 2021 20:34:52 GMT -5
Mudfur died of an unspecified illness, but it could have easily been cancer or another genetic disease.
To be honest, I get the impression that the Erins purposely avoid giving specific diseases to cats in most cases for sensitivity reasons. It's highly unlikely that a potential reader may have lost a family member to 'greencough' or a fox attack; but cancer and untreated diabetes are things that hit home for many people.
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Post by 𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔱 on Mar 25, 2021 20:48:42 GMT -5
Mudfur died of an unspecified illness, but it could have easily been cancer or another genetic disease. To be honest, I get the impression that the Erins purposely avoid giving specific diseases to cats in most cases for sensitivity reasons. It's highly unlikely that a potential reader may have lost a family member to 'greencough' or a fox attack; but cancer and untreated diabetes are things that hit home for many people. Yeah, for a children’s series it’s definitely best for them to avoid the more sensitive topics like that. That being said though, I do wish there was a little more variety in causes of death for the cats. The belly sickness killing Briarlight was pretty unique, but the fact that it only killed a disabled character is disappointing. But having a million different characters die by greencough, mostly between books, is pretty boring at this point. I want a variety of different causes of death, keep us guessing!
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Post by wheeledwarrior on Mar 26, 2021 9:01:39 GMT -5
Mudfur died of an unspecified illness, but it could have easily been cancer or another genetic disease. To be honest, I get the impression that the Erins purposely avoid giving specific diseases to cats in most cases for sensitivity reasons. It's highly unlikely that a potential reader may have lost a family member to 'greencough' or a fox attack; but cancer and untreated diabetes are things that hit home for many people. Yeah, for a children’s series it’s definitely best for them to avoid the more sensitive topics like that. That being said though, I do wish there was a little more variety in causes of death for the cats. The belly sickness killing Briarlight was pretty unique, but the fact that it only killed a disabled character is disappointing. But having a million different characters die by greencough, mostly between books, is pretty boring at this point. I want a variety of different causes of death, keep us guessing! I think it’s also or more about accuracy as well. Things like greencough or whitecough are fictional diseases vaguely based off a real life disease, but cancer and diabetes are real life diseases, so they have to be depicted accurately. And then there was a issue of saying the character died from a real life disease, but it’s actually possible they died from another one (E.g. Grey Wing apparently died from asthma, but according to some topics I’ve read, his symptoms actually resembled emphysema, and the latter makes a lot more sense as a diagnosis). It’s also probably why a lot of the things like that are just barely mentioned and a character dies from them in the background A lot (or dies from something unrelated, such as Brairlight dying from a stomach illness rather than the aftereffects of her injuries, when it was very likely they would’ve killed her had the series the post that topic more realistically). Dying from those illnesses is not pleasant, and would’ve probably been very sad to read... I do think you’re right about having more variety with how characters die, though. It does get boring to read the same types of deaths over and over. But aside from death in battle, I’m not sure how they would make things more varied without going into areas that make for difficult reading or where they might run into accuracy problems...
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Post by 🔥Firestar🔥 on Mar 30, 2021 10:31:20 GMT -5
Also Pebblefur, the cat who appears in code of the clans as the deputy before Acorntail, was said to have died from a lump on his stomach.
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