Some terrible personal news

Post by dang » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 6:46 AM UTC

clhodapp wrote: post #53

rokhayakebe wrote: post #26

Rejoice, Matt, for YOU are one of the few who for the rest of their lives get to say "We knew each other for 23 years and we were married for 18 years,"'till death did us apart. If I can say such a statement in the end I will cry one tear of gratitude for every tear of sorrow. I hope you can find the strength.

He lost a person that he greatly loved at a relatively young age and you presume to tell him to be happy about it because now he can lord his widowed status over people. I'm generally not into making direct personal character attacks on the internet but I think that outlook is disgusting.

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 6:49 AM UTC

andrewbinstock wrote: post #78

snuxoll wrote: post #59

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Broken heart syndrome is real, elderly couples have been know to pass within fairly short time frames of each other even if all medical indications show they very well could have survived longer. Losing the one person you have shared so much of your life with, likely raised children together with and confided in is something I cannot even comprehend. I’m going to put down HN now and play Minecraft with my wife or som…

I have long felt that death certificates are done completely wrong. Instead of just listing the proximate medical cause, they should list the true cause: he died of loneliness; he died of a broken heart; he died because he was homeless and couldn't find his way to the help he needed. When those are the causes of death that we start to track, perhaps the world will become a better place.

Post by joering2 » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

snuxoll wrote: post #59

toomanybeersies wrote: post #54

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You wouldn't be the first if you couldn't go on. A close family friend took his own life shortly after his wife died of cancer. After over 25 years of living together, I guess it was just too much for him to continue without her. I was too young at the time to understand and to be honest I'm still too young to understand.

Broken heart syndrome is real, elderly couples have been know to pass within fairly short time frames of each other even if all medical indications show they very well could have survived longer. Losing the one person you have shared so much of your life with, likely raised children together with and confided in is something I cannot even comprehend. I’m going to put down HN now and play Minecraft with my wife or som…

Post by hackits » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 7:12 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #79

hackits wrote: post #77

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Please go and see a Psychologist.

This crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed here and which we ban accounts for. It was also particularly tasteless to post that here. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again?

Post by askl56 » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 7:13 AM UTC

andrewbinstock wrote: post #78

snuxoll wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Broken heart syndrome is real, elderly couples have been know to pass within fairly short time frames of each other even if all medical indications show they very well could have survived longer. Losing the one person you have shared so much of your life with, likely raised children together with and confided in is something I cannot even comprehend. I’m going to put down HN now and play Minecraft with my wife or som…

I have long felt that death certificates are done completely wrong. Instead of just listing the proximate medical cause, they should list the true cause: he died of loneliness; he died of a broken heart; he died because he was homeless and couldn't find his way to the help he needed. When those are the causes of death that we start to track, perhaps the world will become a better place.