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I think there is truth to this. My grandparents were married on Valentine's Day. My grandmother died on a Christmas Day. Shortly thereafter, my grandfather died and was buried on Valentine's Day.

My husband's favorite uncle recently passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Just two weeks ago, his wife passed away, so shortly following her husband.

I think that the surviving spouse is left with a tremendous sense of emptiness and a lack of will to live without the other, let alone the stress. I have no idea what the statistics are, but this "phenomenon" seems to happen, or we hear about it more often, among elderly couples. It would make sense, since they would have spent the greater part of their lives together and know no differently, or would want to.

I would just hate to think that, if my spouse survived me, he would not continue on to a ripe old age with some degree of happiness.

February 6, 2008 - 7:22pm

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