Sorry to hear if you really did have a stroke. An unpleasant circumstance to deal with in the dream, to say the least. Perhaps she would have been equally satisfied with the response of "Strokes are a result of too much Bacardi and brothels." But then of course you would have had to explain what a brothel is.
When asked "Why do people die?," the standard response is "Life is the number one cause of death."
