To Die of a Broken Heart

[Voobrazheniye]

In my English class tonight, we got on the subject of broken hearts and whether it is possible for a person to actually die of one. So I thought it would be an interesting question to pose here.

Romantic literature and pop culture are filled with the notion of someone loving so much that he or she "died of a broken heart" when the other person left. It makes for great poetry and song, but is it really possible for an otherwise healthy person to DIE of a broken heart? Or is it just a bunch of romantic hogwash?

If you believe that a person really CAN die of a broken heart, then how might this happen?

[Hoopy]

I'll die of a broken heart tonight if Celtic don't win against that Dyslexic Danish team who spell crap as Aab. :lol:

Ok seriously,how about this one.My old neighbours were married for 60 something year,both in their 80's and the man died.His wife just gave up doing everything,she was still a keen gardener as he was and they had a lovely garden and she still went to bingo with her friends.3 weeks after he died she died in her sleep.Maybe just a coincidence but it was as if she had no longer any will to live so you could say that is dying of a broken heart.

[IamKeenan]

In my English class tonight, we got on the subject of broken hearts and whether it is possible for a person to actually die of one. So I thought it would be an interesting question to pose here.

Romantic literature and pop culture are filled with the notion of someone loving so much that he or she "died of a broken heart" when the other person left. It makes for great poetry and song, but is it really possible for an otherwise healthy person to DIE of a broken heart? Or is it just a bunch of romantic hogwash?

If you believe that a person really CAN die of a broken heart, then how might this happen?



I have heard of Animals dying of broken hearts over their owners. And I think it is possible of mates living together for 50 or 60 years and losing one then other other just giving up and passing away. That is something so personal it would be hard to detect. But if you would like to see a great movie about this subject watch the movie called '''Somewhere in Time''


this is a clip from the Movie, It stars Chris Reeve and Jane Seymore

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[huney]

My best friend's parents were a good example. They had been married for over sixty years. She died of a short illness in the spring and he followed right behind her although he was quite healthy. He said before he died that without her he had no reason to get out of bed in the morning. Then one morning he didn't.

[jimsan]

Losing a loved one can cause severe depression, even a kind of madness I think.
In normal everday life we seek help for things like this but in a situation where you have lost someone who means everything to you I think you just don't care about it and begin to lose the will to live.
Some wish to die so they can join their departed one.

Yes, you can easily die of a broken heart.

Maybe it's even a form of suicide.

[Sveta's Hero]

I have read somewhere a while ago that something traumatic like losing a close loved one can cause a problem with the thyroid gland. It is called "Graves Disease". It is a form of hypo-thyroidism. I don't think you can die from it, unless it is never treated properly, resulting in other complications.

[Lucky]

nice post, paul, as usual... and story told by martin is very touching... but i would divide situation of dying from a broken heart into two parts...
first - when someone who u love die...
and second - when someone who u love just broke up or leave u...
as for me these two cases a bit differ
yeh... i also know a story about two people who lived in my villadge and die one for other in two or three months... or when die in the same day... or someone die on others birthday...
in first case i think its possible... as people lived for a long time together... they were all for each other...and when one went other dont see any reason to live especially when is old... i think in this case things work deep in a mind...i mean for example when someone is in the hospital after accident... and other die... first may has no willing to live and in his/her mind dont want to get better ... so then he wont get better doesnt matter how good doctors will care of him/her...

and in second case... honestly... i dont know... i just know we will be very hurt... it will be very difficult... but to die really... i dont know... i dont even want to talk about suiside in both cases as its unacceptable for me...

but honestly... dont anyone of u havent felt dead when broke up with someone u loved...
i mean yr soul... even if body was still alive... i think with time soul can recover for live again... body cant when its dead... but isnt dead of soul more important... it also can be a good question...

[Lucker]

Beat this , though I might have mentioned it before
It relastes to a customer of mine --- woman aged 43 and husband 74 . No children and married 18 years , spending every minute together , including work of laying speciality , high quality floors.
3 years ago Annette's mother dies of Cancer
2 years ago , huge , long haired German Shepherd is destroyed on court order ( their kid , a very good friend of mine also)
Last year , Annette's father drops dead from heart disease
July this year , husband Geoff catches Pneumonia and is on a 10% only recovery prognosis for theee days.
Husband pulls through hospital intensive care but is diagnosed with Cancer .
Given two weeks to live
Dies two weeks later in hospice .
House burns down following evening --electrical fault and not as a result of dropped cigarette due to Annette falling asleep while drunk .
Annette rescued by neighbour off bedroom balcony by ladder .

Now , she has every reason to die or kill herself from a broken heart .
She has not done either

It depends on your character and breeding.

[sunontheway]

I know Ramon will die only when he loses all his enemies. Something in his character keeps him alive... :madman:

[Lonewolf74]

2 years ago , huge , long haired German Shepherd is destroyed on court order ( their kid , a very good friend of mine also)


Why?:confused:

[Andylad]

My Grandma & Grandpa were married for 77yrs, they were the most wonderful people i have ever met, Grandpa died at the age of 99, at his funeral in the crematorium grandma walked up to the coffin, laid her hands on the coffin lid & said, it's o.k. Tom, I'll be with you soon, 6 days later she died at home reading the newspaper, i believe she died of a broken heart ,

[IamKeenan]

My Grandma & Grandpa were married for 77yrs, they were the most wonderful people i have ever met, Grandpa died at the age of 99, at his funeral in the crematorium grandma walked up to the coffin, laid her hands on the coffin lid & said, it's o.k. Tom, I'll be with you soon, 6 days later she died at home reading the newspaper, i believe she died of a broken heart ,

I agree with you!!

[Voobrazheniye]

I agree with you!!

OK, Keenan... I am a little stumped here. What in the world does a hot girl with an AK-47 have to do with this subject?

[Lucker]

General Tubby is a Necrophiliac and just likes to shoot when you talk about old , dead people .

[Hoopy]

OK, Keenan... I am a little stumped here. What in the world does a hot girl with an AK-47 have to do with this subject?
He has a youtubby link into his signature.

[Voobrazheniye]

but honestly... dont anyone of u havent felt dead when broke up with someone u loved...
i mean yr soul... even if body was still alive... i think with time soul can recover for live again... body cant when its dead... but isnt dead of soul more important... it also can be a good question...

Of course. When you love someone deeply and that person leaves you or perhaps just doesn't respond to your love, the pain in your heart - and soul - can be very deep indeed. I've been there. And certainly you can feel like you might WANT to die, but not including suicide, can the hurt go so deep that it can kill you naturally?

That deadness in the soul can be deep and lasting, but the soul also can find its life again, either in a new love or in other ways. But if the heartache is so profound as to "kill the soul," can the soul spring back to life before it takes the body with it?

[vitashenka]

It is a beautidull love stories when people share every moment fo thier life in deep love even after death, but sometimes we just MUST be strong if someone else also need our love and support

[snow_flake]

If you believe that a person really CAN die of a broken heart, then how might this happen?


Nope, then i should been dead:becky:

[rainy-day]

there are people who can't imagine life without their beloved one. usually that posibility, appears when the other one dies. if people are dumpted, they don't die because of the broken heart. their pride helps them to survive.:becky:

for me that problem is more a problem of will, because you can keep yourself on the line, or you can choose to let yourself disapear.

[zoroooo]

My Grandma & Grandpa were married for 77yrs, they were the most wonderful people i have ever met, Grandpa died at the age of 99, at his funeral in the crematorium grandma walked up to the coffin, laid her hands on the coffin lid & said, it's o.k. Tom, I'll be with you soon, 6 days later she died at home reading the newspaper, i believe she died of a broken heart ,


I am sure your analize is close to the true...

So reall love for a person can affect our health and some could die..

Just this superficial people ofen give their judgement without any reall experience because they arent mature anough to live full and deep...a boyfriend isnt what Andy discribes us...

Verry touching reality .......thanks Andy


Lavuun

[Lonewolf74]

Just rip your heart of....it wont hurt anymore! :p

[Hoopy]

If your pacemaker stops and you die is that not a broken heart? :rolleyes:

[zoroooo]

If your pacemaker stops and you die is that not a broken heart? :rolleyes:


No you forgot to change the batteries

[bobbyd]

there are people who can't imagine life without their beloved one. usually that posibility, appears when the other one dies. if people are dumpted, they don't die because of the broken heart. their pride helps them to survive.:becky:

for me that problem is more a problem of will, because you can keep yourself on the line, or you can choose to let yourself disapear.

exactly. I had neighbours many years ago who followed the same path as Matt described earlier except it was 2 weeks later. We all said it was a broken heart yada yada yada. Turns out the old lady wasn't eating or taking her heart pills.

My parents were married for 58 years and I feared a bit for my mom when my father died last year. She's fine now...life goes on.

[cecilia]

if some one had died of broken heart it was one from previlious generation.Nowadays people became too cynical,there some doubt if people still have heart at all.

[katrin-78]

In my English class tonight, we got on the subject of broken hearts and whether it is possible for a person to actually die of one. So I thought it would be an interesting question to pose here.

Romantic literature and pop culture are filled with the notion of someone loving so much that he or she "died of a broken heart" when the other person left. It makes for great poetry and song, but is it really possible for an otherwise healthy person to DIE of a broken heart? Or is it just a bunch of romantic hogwash?

If you believe that a person really CAN die of a broken heart, then how might this happen?


Died with soul. And you will neer be the same as you were before.

[Lucky]

"to die of a broken heart" i still believe its possible even nowadays... not only in previous generation... though above was said about cynizm and i have to agree at our times there are too much of it...
but talking about death of a broken heart id prefer to say more like about death of a soul...
Katrin said good... sometimes things happen and change smth inside u... and u know u will never be the same as past took some part of u... and u become... how to say better... stoned... and empty...
i think there are such kind of people who can die of a froken heart... as loss of close person can break their usual life... and they dont see any reason of living anymore... is it right or good? i dont know... but who we are to judge them... im not talking about suicide cases... thats other topic and i think this isnt an exit...
its easier for people who have kids... or some other close people axept his beloved who care of them and that person realized how much she/he will hurt these close people who also like her/him...
but this question its of kind on which its difficult to answer... we all now say things... discuss... coz this doesnt happen with us... but what would we say if smth like this happen to our close people or to us...
thats why i think there are kinds of questions and things to answer on which is impossible unless u feel it and live it...

[bryangriffiths]

It begins slowly then generates speed as time goes by, eating at you at every turn , inch by inch peice by peice till nothing is left (((((

[Lucker]

Pull yourself together , Griffiths .
Join the Army and meet some decent chappies .