succumb

However, despite regularly diving into decaying corpses, Komodo dragons rarely succumb to infections themselves— even though males lead devastating wounds on each other during breeding season.

In the weeks, months and years to come, many of those who survived will succumb to cancers like leukemia.

Eventually, let’s not put too fine a word on it, the logical mind realises that if it goes on like this, then the whole system will go down, the entire host brain and body will succumb.