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Brikar stopped drinking long enough to mumble
 I'll admit, it's iffy... but 'killed' tends to imply that she died of something other than a natural cause. It's stupid, I know, but I've come across this before. |
I was thinking the same thing. It's perfectly valid to say that someone was killed by a disease or natural bodily process (such as a heart defect), but it's more colloquially used to mean some sort of outside, possibly violent, force.