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Doctors Say You Can Die of a Broken Heart
We've heard the story many times. The husband or wife in an elderly couple who have been together decades dies, and within a few days, so does the surviving spouse.
It is such a heart-wrenching event, that we all imagine that the survivor died of a broken heart. It was even assumed that is what happened to actor Debbie Reynolds when her daughter Carrie Fisher died this past December.
Well, a doctor at Genesis Health Systems in the Quad Cities says that dying of a broken heart is a real thing... in a manner of speaking.
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