Why did Audrey Hepburn die at such a young age?

Question

On Imdb it says Acute aorta aneurysm, but some of the info on there for other people is wrong, so I was just wondering.

Answer 1

Philosophically, it was her time.

"In 1992, when Hepburn returned to Switzerland from her visit to Somalia, she began to feel stomach pains. She went to specialists and received inconclusive results, so she decided to have it examined while on a trip to Los Angeles in October. On November 1, doctors conducted a laparoscopy surgery and discovered abdominal cancer that had spread from her appendix. The cancer had grown slowly over the course of several years, and metastasized not as a tumor, but as a thin encasing over her small intestine. The pains that Hepburn felt were a result of spasms in the ileum of her small intestine. The doctors removed one foot of intestine and sewed it closed. Hepburn was placed on an intravenous drip of total perenteral nutrition. After the intestinal scar had healed, Hepburn went through 5-fluorouracil Leucovorin chemotherapy. A few days later, she had an occlusion and the medication she was on was not enough to dull the pain. On December 1, she had a second surgery. After one hour, the surgeon decided that the cancer had spread too far and could not be removed. Unable to tolerate a commercial flight, Givenchy arranged for socialite Bunny Mellon to send her jet to LA and take Hepburn to Switzerland. Mellon filled the cabin with flowers."

Answer 2

Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer on 20 January 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, and was interred there. She was sixty-three.

Answer 3

She had stomach cancer, which was detected far too late, she only lived about 6 months after her diagnosis. She was one of my all-time favorite actresses and a great humanitarian

Answer 4

She was a victim of Bouvier des Flandres disease, a genetic disorder. One of her sisters and a cousin also died of the same malady.

Answer 5

Because she had colon cancer.