Sunday, 19 April 2009
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Longtime Couple Dies Six Hours Apart
via Yahoo!:Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family's home in Troy. She was 93. Six hours later her 95-year-old husband, Lyle, died at a nursing home in the nearby town of Wathena.At their funeral Wednesday, friends and relatives described the two as inseparable. Some found comfort knowing neither would have to live without the other.
The Yinglings were married in 1941. Both were born on northeast Kansas farms and were active in Troy as members of their church and civic organizations.
That's both depressing and "awww"worthy - it reminds me of Ben Folds' The Luckiest, too.
Have you heard other stories like this?
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Aw, sad. Guess they really couldn't live without each other.
Actually, I have a history of that in my family. My great grandmother died just two weeks after her husband of 50+ years died.
I think it's sweet. I want to have that kind of connection to the man that I end up marrying.
This is how things should happen.
Spend your lives together happy and in love
Live for a good, long time together like that
And then never have to bear the pain of being without the other
<3
Tragic yet beautiful. To always be with the one you love even through death. Kind of makes me think of the ending of The Notebook.
super duper romantic :)
Awww that is sad.... put it happens like that when you are old and your spouse dies.
xoxoxox Inaya-Yasmeen
This is quite a story. I should write a song about htis.
...unless you just hinted that Ben Folds wrote on it already. :-\
Its only sad for the ones left behind. Its beautiful for them. I'm envisioning her waiting for him to pass over and being there for him when he did.
That's wonderful. I hope that if I live that long with the love of my life, we both die like that too.
That's how I envision leaving this life, with the love of my life by my side :)
yeah i have, it's so sweet <3
my friend's grandparents died within hours of each other. when her grandma found out her husband had passed, she had a heartattack and died a few hours later.
also, i believe whole-heartedly that this will be the same for my own grandparents.
My great-grandfather died with in almost exactly a year of my great-grandmoms death. They were both 92 when they died, and were married in their early 20s. =[ <3
My grandmother passed away a few months after my grandfather, and they were married for about 50 years.
My great grandparents had this happen, though not mere hours. They died within a month or two of one another.
My Aging and Society textbook put it negatively: "Widows and widowers have a much higher risk of death." (The closer to the spouse's death, the greater the risk.)
I don't see it as such a bad thing. I hope that Matt and I live to be very old and after we live a full life together we die close together. He's expressed the same wish. After we had been dating for a while he showed me the Notebook just because he thought the part where that happened was touching.
A true duprass, if ever there was one.
I hope my life works out that way.
This is like a real-life notebook couple. They couldn't live without one another in life or death. Amazing.
awwww<3 i havent heard anything like this though
Awww.
just wow...
That's cute... in a tragic way, of course.
@another_rebel_without_a_cause@xanga - I just wanted to let you know that I got and appreciated the Cat's Cradle reference... I was just talking about granfalloons yesterday!
Stuff like this makes me really believe in love - oddly enough.