Can You Die Of A Broken Heart?
I just got the very disturbing news that an old school friend has died last night. This after we had been bad friends for more than 40 years.
He was my best friend during my childhood and it is sad to know that we had squandered a lifetime not talking to each other. Thankfully we patched it up a few months ago and had the opportunity to have lunch together four times since then. We had another lunch date scheduled for next Thursday.
An old friendship rekindled just to be cut short again. Life is truly too short to be cross with one another.
He died very unexpectedly in his sleep; just as his father did 30 years ago. I was under the impression that he was enjoying good health and according to his sister who brought this bad news to me, he was in good health indeed. The cause of his death is not yet known.
The uncanny thing here is that history has repeated itself. His father died 3 days after his wife – that is my friend’s mother – died and now he died; a mere 4 days after his own wife died. She is not in her grave yet.
Farewell my friend. I shall miss you.
Have a wonderful day.
The good weather is holding. We're having a windless and sunny day again. It is not warm but the worse coldness is broken.
Comments (34)
? Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity
Some call it, the circle of life.
My Mom passed exactly one month after my Dad.
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Research has shown that in any marriage of more than 30 years, the death of one spouse greatly increases the chances that the other one will be dead within 6 months.
its possible,.. but i dont want to.
Glad you were able to make up your friendship again and enjoy some good times.
I do believe you can die from a broken heart. Sometimes the pain of being apart is just too much for some hearts to deal with. It does seem uncanny what happened to your friend and his father.
Butters.. That was a sad story about your uncles dog
Ever loyal are dogs I think
The death of someone close is a lot of stress. Maybe it was too much for his heart.
Death is an inevitable truth
Tomorrow will be another day.
I have seen animals grieving too, I do think some hearts love very hard and feel things, the body and mind and heart are so intwined, it just closes down in grief.
I dont believe we can die of a broken heart, after all the heart doesnt literally break it is simply an expression used to explain losing someone we love.
disregard my other post, i was in the mobile.
I think we all know that a broken heart is a figure of speech and that the heart does nor physically break. The question really is: Can extreme sadness cause death? But then I guess you knew that too.
Yes, it is the same fella.
To all you other guys, Thank you once more for the responses. I'm off to bed now. Not feeling well.
Sorry your not feeling well, hope it passes quickly
Sorry to hear about your friend. It is wonderful to know that you did actually have some time together before his death.
As far as your blog title, I really do not know. It seems as this happens quite often, where one dies and the spouse follows shortly afterwards. I wonder if it isn't some sort of mental state that provokes death shortly afterwards? In a sense, a piece of you disappears once you become one from a relationship. The power of the mind.....perhaps?
Again, sorry to hear the bad news. Hopefully things are going well over there with you and his family.
The loss to my Friend was such that not long after, he left his job and went to the USA to get away from the pain..he never returned..now married with two kids and lived in the US ever since.
Anyway, what will be will be. His wife was buried today (Monday) and he will be buried on Friday. They wanted the keep her burial over for Friday as well, but too many people came from far away and have to return before then. They could not postpone it.
You are absolutely correct. Life must go on.