Woman dies 14 hours after husband died

[UrbScotty]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-same-day-deaths,0,2295334.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Alexander J. Vance and his wife, Leola, made a life together for nearly 64 years. This week, they died 14 hours apart at Schnepp's Health Care Center.

Alexander Vance met Leola in Algonac, where Vance was building barges for the military in 1941. He was 20, she was 16.

Leola Vance later told her children that she liked her future husband's personality and the twinkle in his eye. He liked "everything" about her, Phil Vance, the couple's 48-year-old son, told the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant for a Saturday story.

They married Dec. 19, 1941 and moved to the Alma area.

[Maat]

1. People would be surprised at how much this happens.

It only goes to show that when we are ready to let go, we let go, and transition.

[rocktivity]

5. You put it a lot more tactfully than I would have

but you're right--this isn't really news.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Maat]

10. Thanks.

The only thing that would keep me alive would be my daughter ... I worry because Mark and I have been together 28 years (we're both 46 now). It would be devastating. May we both live into our 90's!

[eleny]

2. oh geez!

:cry:

[Erika]

3. My Aunt died and 30 days later so did my Uncle

They had been married for decades. She died from cancer of the esophagus. He told their children he chose not to live without her.
He was dead within 30 days from a massive heart attack. He had no previous history of heart disease.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I find these stories both sad and heartening

One can't help but be touched about a love that ends this way. Poetic and sad .... and yet so joyous to know how much they needed and loved each other.

Sparkly has a wonderful story about this sort of thing.

on edit ...... How can anyone hear about situations like this and not see some higher power at work? I know I do ... and I practice no formal religion. Whether it is God, a god, a cosmic force, man's own super spirituality .... I dunno ...... but I feel like the people to whom this happens are truly happy and fully in a place of peace and joy when I hear about this. I get good goosebumnps ... yanno?

[lwin]

6. Hey, you run out of nickles yet?

:rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Let's just say there's a certain lightness to my step ......

due to an emptier than normal change pocket :)

[Sparkly]

12. First time he's lost any weight in a long while. n/t

[lwin]

15. You two crack me up...

love it...:)

[Erika]

8. They had become one under God

He was religious as she also was. They believed they would be together for all eternity. He just didn't want to wait.

[Sparkly]

9. Here's an amazing one

(These were friends of my parents.)

Alix Deguise, 79, had been taken to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital with a blood clot in her lungs. Pierre Deguise, 89, who accompanied her there, slipped and fell in the emergency room, breaking his hip. The two were placed in side-by-side beds, and Pierre Deguise, too, developed a blood clot in his lungs.

As the couple slipped in and out of consciousness, hospital staff made a plaster cast of their entwined hands. Pierre Deguise passed away in the darkest hour of the night, and a few hours later, Alix Deguise joined him.

I can't find the original source (an alumni magazine), but somebody's got it blogged, just so you'll know I'm not making it up.

http://whatsthefuss.com/2004_10_01_archive.html
(way down on the page)

[serryjw]

11. My mother died

and 11 months later my dad walked himself into the emergency room of Kaiser Permanente in LA,told the ER doctor he was going to have a massive coronery(doctors words......he didn't recommend we see him), had one and died right in front of the doctor. He could not bring him back.
My brother (whom does not have a spiritual bone in him body) didn't accept he was where he wanted to be.

[Erika]

13. I also know of a mildly autistic man - a co-worker

whose mother died when he was 62. He died within six weeks of metastasized cancer never previously diagnosed. I believed he had willed himself to die. He and his mother had lived together until she had to go into a nursing home for medical care. He spent his lunch hour and every evening there until she died. Some bonds cannot be broken by death.

[justgamma]

14. My uncle passed away from cancer.

My aunt passed away 2 weeks later while talking on the phone with her daughter. Her daughter called my mom to go check on her and she was gone, with the phone still in her hand.
My dad got sick at my aunts funeral and passed away the next week.

All the burial sites were together. It was the saddest thing.

My mom was the bravest woman in the world. I asked her how she could cope with it all. She said "God doesn't give you more than you can handle." She was a real Christian and loved everyone.

[free_spirit82]

16. My great-grandparents

Were married for 78 years, and my great-grandpa had become really ill, so their children made an executive decision (against my great-grandma's will, they had her declared incompetant) to put him in a home for 24 hour care. She sat in her chair and prayed over and over again for the lord to take her before they too her Henry; and she died as they were wheeling him out of the door (her heart stopped, she was 95). He died exactly three months later in their bed. My father's first cousin quit her job so she could bring him home and care for him and allow him to die where he would be most comfortable. He was 101.

[BadNews]

17. If I have a choice, that is the only way I want to go out. NT/