The former first lady died last week at the age of 96.

  • Jo Miran
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    11510 months ago

    This is in a way sad and in a way extremely touching. Sad is obvious, but I find the “I’m not hanging out here without her” just heartbreakingly sweet. He’s gonna die right after her funeral because, why shouldn’t he?

    My wife and I are coming up on thirty years and I genuinely don’t remember life without her.

    • @vrek
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      10 months ago

      That actually is a real thing. Sometimes when one long term partner dies, the other quickly follows with no explainable cause. Like a man who gets yearly physicals and no history of heart problems dies of a sudden heart attack with in a month of his wife dying, that sort of thing.

      Look up heartbreak syndrome it’s sweet and sad

      https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/broken-heart-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20354617

      To save you a Google search

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        I knew about it, but it’s honestly one of the saddest and sweetest things I’ve ever heard. To be that in love with someone, it’s really incredible.

    • The Picard Maneuver
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      1210 months ago

      Same here. It just wouldn’t feel right - like how far is this car going to roll after half the wheels fall off?