A nurse walked into the hospital room of an elderly patient one morning and found the patient unconscious. The patient’s bladder and bowels had released during the night, and his skin was pale and cool. Doctors immediately checked and found that tumors in his brain had ruptured. What is the most likely explanation of what happened to the patient and what will happen next?

The patient was found unconscious, pale, and cool, with loss of bladder and bowel control, and doctors found that brain tumors had ruptured. These clues indicate that the cancer caused his death. After death, the muscles stiffen in a process called rigor mortis, so the choice describing death from cancer followed by rigor mortis is correct.

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