A Life Affirming Couple

[emmie]

its sad of course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39727577

[emmie]

perhaps i should have put this in chatterbank?

[Mamyalynne]

Bittersweet.

[emmie]

yes it is

[hereIam]

Heartbreaking in a way for those left behind, but so lovely for them.

[Sqad]

No it's NOT sad.
It would have been sad if one had died leaving the other to survive for perhaps a few more years.....alone...in a home...with just memories..........that WOULD have been sad.
BUT, both dying, basically together, is JOYFUL.

[mikey4444]

Sqad has it right here....not sad at all, but tough on the surviving relatives of course.

[jno]

I agree with Sqad. The ideal way to go. Those left behind will just have to cope, as they always have to when parents die - much worse when it's the children who die first.

[Baldric]

It's so lovely, brings a tear to the eye.

[Samuraisan]

What a lovely way to go. I agree with Sqad, it would have been awful for one to be left behind.

[murraymints]

ahhhhh...together forever x

[Barmaid]

I also agree with Sqad. My grandparents have been married for the same length of time. They are devoted to each other.

Sounds to me like this couple had a good life and a good death which is probably the best one can ask for.

[trt]

What a lovely sad story, and if you saw Missing that was on TV last night, you would understand what long married couples go through when one dies.

[Peter Pedant]

erm excuse me... they're dead arent they ?

you know like a life affirming couple because they arent alive
affirm has coe to have a completely new AB meaning

[baza]

PP it must be being so cheerful that keeps you going.
A couple died within 40 mins of each other ,sad, but at least neither had to suffer life without their partner.

[marval]

It is sad they died, but heart warming that they are still together.

I hope the family take comfort in that.

[hereIam]

Thanks em x