Can You Die Of A Broken Heart?

Question

Did you realize that many couples have been together for a long time, they die within a short time frame from each other?
What's your view on this? Give detailed answers and not a yes or a no.

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If you are brave go to the cemetary and go look at couples tombstones and you'll see most of them (not all) die within short time period from the other one.

Answer 1

Yes I believe you can

It may sound hokie but I believe that when you truly, and I mean TRUE LY commit yourself to a marriage, the singleness in you dies and you become part of a whole that is the marriage. The longer this marriage lives the more connected to two halves become. No one can live with only 50% of their body alive.

For me, I am fairly certain that my wife actually generates the electricle impulse that make my heart beat.

Answer 2

Oh yeah absolutely. I have had my heart broken and I don't mean that glibly. My heart actually physically hurt. Grief is a horrid thing but a great teacher. The old people phenomena that you're talking about - there have been lots of studies on that and pretty much everyone reaches the same conclusion you did....you just miss the other person so much you want to be with them and lose the will to live. Its sad. I work as a paralegal and one of our disabled clients - an older soft-spoken woman- her husband left her for another woman 3 years ago after 35 years of marriage----she is crippled by depression about it to this day and can't see her life in any type of context without Frank in it. She literally is living in the past and has even tried suicide because she can't get over her broken heart. With that said, I think anyone who has loved another human being so much to at any point have a broken heart is a very fortunate person indeed. It is SO painful BUT how many people ever get the experience of loving someone else so deeply? Some never do....so its kind of a bittersweet thing in my opinion.

Answer 3

It depends on how healthy the long term relationship has been. In hospice, I found that the healthier the relationship, the longer the survivor lived. The more unhealthy, or, emotionally unbalanced the relationship was, the more likely the survivor would experience serious health problems in the few months after the death. Unrelated to that, when the survivor does not grieve in a healthy way, such as holding grief in and keeping up a steady appearance, the more likely the survivor will die within the first year after a death. One of the goals of hospice is to provide professional support to the survivor in that first crucial year after a death. But, can someone die of a broken heart? I almost did once. Actually had a cardiac event. Humans assign significant meaning to their body parts. For example, when nursing patients who complained of chronic back or shoulder pain, I would always ask them "Are you carrying too much of a load in your life?" Americans especially assign meaning to their backs, related to emotional strength and fortitude . . . "Spineless wonder", "He has the world on his shoulders", etc. Our emotions related to love do not reside in our physical heart, and yet, we say, "broken heart". When we perceive an emotional upset, we can then assign that upset to the body part we culturally associate those emotions with. And, it is possible, then for that body part to join the party of upset.

Answer 4

I know i have heard of that happening.I broke up about a year ago with the 1 ex i will never get over and i thought i would die of a broken heart.It certainly felt that way but I didnt.I think maybe its possible with elderly people cause they just give up even probably eating and their bodies just cant handle the extreme heartache.yes I think in rare cases its possible.

Answer 5

I think its very possible. When some couples have spent 40 or 50 yrs together and one dies, the other doesnt know how to go on without them since they had been a part of thier life for so long.

Answer 6

Aaawww Hun, i think of this is a threat. Your great Grandmother in all probability has lost her "will" to stay because of the fact she has lost her husband. She could think of that there is not any factor now because of the fact he replaced into her existence. now and back human beings basically style of provide up, enable bypass and spot what happens. My companions Nan had some little strokes and recovered ok, yet then had a huge one. Ended up in wellness midsection no longer being waiting to eat, communicate or maybe bypass to the rest room herself. Nan ought to nevertheless understand each and every thing yet hated what replaced into occurring along with her physique. She basically style of went away (her recommendations) and died some weeks later, I do have faith she had given up because of the fact of her circumstances. I do desire you're o.k. Nat, attempt to talk to somebody, it does help. would not make the feelings bypass away, yet makes them somewhat much less stressful to deal and cope with. Your great Grandmother might locate her will to stay back, yet she would possibly no longer. sixty 4 years is an prolonged time, and if she retains residing a 300 and sixty 5 days without him will in all probability look a superb purchase longer because of the fact she has lost him XXX take care Nat.

Answer 7

I've recently seen that happen a few times with old couples. In each case, the man died within 6 months of his wife's death. Very sad, but sweet.

Answer 8

I think it depends on how long you have been married it is true though that after the other passes it is only a short time that they reunite with one another. I think if the marriage was strong and the love was actually there then that happens.

Answer 9

yes ive witnessed this happening. in this case was my grandma that passed away and then within months my grandfather passed also. he missed her so much he then joined her. so yes i beleive that u can die from a broken heart. this has also happened to friend of mines with her grandma dying then her grandfather a short time after. trippy huh. yeah thumbs up

Answer 10

Yes I believe it is entirely possible, most people after they have been together for a long time when their spouse dies, they essentially die of a broken heart.
How you feel effects your body and it just gives up.