Comments | young_widows: Death isn't romantic

becka_kitty in young_widows

Death isn't romantic

Oct 02, 2009 08:05

This was posted to an acquaintance's Facebook page on the 2nd anniversary of my husband's death. I really have no idea how to respond to this. If I could have laid down and died, too, I probably would have. I don't really find anything romantic about it, just a lot of pain ( Read more... )

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divamelisande November 13 2009, 18:31:54 UTC

That's a double-edged sword, right there... my husband Seamus passed away 18 months ago yesterday, and I honestly thought I Could. Not. Go. On. When they told me there was no more hope for him, I thought I would stop breathing when he did. I couldn't imagine that life would ever be worth living again. I thought that feeling OK about life would somehow lessen the love I have for my husband, or the bond that we shared ( ... )

Walk the line perdus October 20 2011, 20:20:43 UTC

I can`t speak for someone that is in their 70`s or 80`s, but I am not sure you can die of a broken heart. If that were true, I would be dead by now. And I don`t think you can will yourself to die either, or I would be gone.