My father died a year ago. He started vomiting one afternoon in the nursing home. They called me to come to the emergency room at the hospital. He had been complaining of unbearable itching all over for weeks, sometimes scratching himself until he bled. When I got to the hospital ER, he was still vomiting-- almost continuously-- projectile vomiting. He was confused and kept trying to get up off of the bed, but the nurse kept him on his back on the bed. When he vomited, he was gurgling which I assumed meant that he was aspirating vomitus. The vomit was black and smelled like feces, which I have found out was probably fecal vomiting, which I did not know was possible until now. I have decided that he probably had undiagnosed pancreatic cancer. Does that sound like the most probable cause of his symptoms? He died later that night from what the doctors said was a heart attack brought on by the stress of the constant vomiting.