I don't know what the term is for that.

Last night I saw one of our cancer patients in the E.R. He had had seizures and his family brought him in. He'd had stage IV disease for a few months so this was the sort of thing I knew in the back of my mind would happen to him. When I saw him in the E.R. I felt like he would probably die within 12-24 hours, and in fact he did. :( He was a nice guy. At least he had his family with him when he died.