SomeSpinsterFor a variety of reasons, including multiple people in my life actively dying, I am working on not calling every sudden alarming situation "dying". It's so common! It is clearly not the time in my life to use those phrases though so they gotta go.
Highly do not recommend the experience of hearing yourself jokingly use hyperbole but the situation you're citing as extreme is the exact thing the other person is experiencing. 0/10 immediately divert attention to avoid making everyone around feel awful.