critical illness / on the verge of death

a grandfather

the state or condition (of something at a certain time)

fall into, be caught in, trap / insufficient, mistake

fall into, slide into / surrender / collapse, cave in, fall (i.e. castle)

fall in, lapse into, yield to

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

paternal grandfather