What's the difference between ...から死ぬ and ...で死ぬ?


We know that both から and で can express reason, and that から emphasis on a
process of change in comparison to で. If this is the prerequisite, then both
"...から死ぬ" and "...で死ぬ" can be said, though they have different meanings:

1)...から死ぬ: some bad thing has changed eventually to death. For example:
肺炎から死んだ means: The death is a result of a change in a medical condition of
pneumonia.

2)...で死ぬ: The death is due to some thing. This thing only has causal
reelationship to the death, but it doesn't have to necessarily to develop into
the death. For example: 肺炎で死んだ means: Someone died of pneumonia, but it didn't
start from pneumonia, rather than something others.

But in the reality, I only hear people say ...で死ぬ rather than ...から死ぬ, why?

I would really appreciate it if you can answer my question with detailed
examples and argumentations, thank you very much!!!




My suspicion, as a non-native speaker, is that ～から for reasons works best when
the ～ precedent is a statement, rather than a noun.

  * 毒【どく】を飲【の】みましたから死【し】んだ

Even then, ～ので sounds better to my ears for clearly stating a reason,
_because_ of which the following verb clause occurs:

  * 毒【どく】を飲【の】みました[の]{●}[で]{●}死【し】んだ

The construction 「`[NOUN]`から」 sounds less to me like the `[NOUN]` is the
reason, and instead seems at first glance to be more like " _from_ `[NOUN]`"
as an almost locative kind of thing. As in, "from `[NOUN]`, something comes /
develops / derives / etc."

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Again, I'm not a native speaker, and I invite any constructive input from
native speakers. :)

