to battle an illness; to struggle against a disease

battling an illness; struggling against a disease

to die of disease

dying of disease

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

long / (time) long, lengthy

a twig or shoot / a treetop / the tip or end of something / the top or peak of a mountain / the edge or verge of a road or field / a descendant / the future, later, after / the end of a period of time

a twig or shoot / a treetop / (archaic) the tip or end of something