@johnny_average I think that's more likely to be honest and I hope it does go that way as it'd be more realistic seeing as most chronic health probs are a slow decline over decades. Even if this is the comparatively fast big C (most likely for this sort of story I guess?), unless it is a brain tumour in a nasty spot he ain't gonna just drop in an instant seeing as he's walking around passing for a normal right now, he should have at least a month if not several.
@Vcxz it does have the drama tag and that's about the most dramatic way I could think of other than the obvious dying on stage one, plus with no tragedy tag I figure he has to make it to some sort of goal or whatever to "die happy", and making music with this chick seems to have been the point the whole time.