Yes, that is horrible.
It reminds me of a girl I was familiar with at my volunteering centre. The doctors gave her an accidental overdose of anaesthetic after foot surgery and killed her. She was only 18 years old. I had never really known her at all, I might have run into her once or twice, but it was a shocking and awful experience. This girl wasn't actually very sick, her death was the sort of thing that could happen to any of us.
Dying whilst you're young and when no one is expecting it at all - that is a thing to assign to Mordor.