After 56 years of marriage,the father then the mother of the former BC and pro quarterback passed away within one hour on Wednesday.
O.T.-Doug Flutie's parents both die of heart attacks
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Holy shit
He's been all over my social media feeds because of his involvement with UA and the Jerseys for this week's game.
He's been all over my social media feeds because of his involvement with UA and the Jerseys for this week's game.
Sometime the loss of a loved one, especially a spouse, is simply more than the partner left behind can take...physically and emotionally.
It can even happen with friends. I remember seeing a news story about 15 years ago that there was a singing duo who had known each other ever since they were kids. These two had been best friends and like brothers all their lives, and had been business partners for decades. -Their wives and children were close too. It was like one, big extended family.
When one passed away, the other was singing a tribute to his deceased friend at the wake...and right in the middle of the song his voice faltered and he fell backwards, and was dead before he hit the floor.
The connection between people can truly be powerful, and sometimes the will to go on when someone very close goes is simply too much to ask.
Anyway, sincere prayers and sympathies to the Flutie family. -And if anything positive can be taken from this it would be that, just as Mr. and Mrs. Flutie walked through life hand in hand, that's how they'll now enter Heaven.
It can even happen with friends. I remember seeing a news story about 15 years ago that there was a singing duo who had known each other ever since they were kids. These two had been best friends and like brothers all their lives, and had been business partners for decades. -Their wives and children were close too. It was like one, big extended family.
When one passed away, the other was singing a tribute to his deceased friend at the wake...and right in the middle of the song his voice faltered and he fell backwards, and was dead before he hit the floor.
The connection between people can truly be powerful, and sometimes the will to go on when someone very close goes is simply too much to ask.
Anyway, sincere prayers and sympathies to the Flutie family. -And if anything positive can be taken from this it would be that, just as Mr. and Mrs. Flutie walked through life hand in hand, that's how they'll now enter Heaven.
I know from experience. My mother died a few months after my father. Within a month of my father's death, my mother started going downhill. It's like my mother had no fight left in her.
Yes, first gay marriage in the US... Shhh... it's a secret... [eyeroll]
No, they died hours apart after one hearing off the others passing.
They reconciled later in life. In fact, Adams' dying words were, " Thomas Jefferson survives!" Unbeknownst to him, Jefferson had actually expired hours earlier...
My paternal grandmother was in the hospital after serious surgery. While she was there my grandfather had a heart attack ending up in the same hospital one floor below. He died a few days later. My relatives didn't want to tell her until she was stronger. They told her he couldn't visit because he had the Flu. Once they and the doctors felt she could handle it they told her. She never left the hospital. How much was just giving up and how much was never recovering I don't know. I was only a child at the time.
Some versions say they didn't. Which was why Adams statement was recorded.
And the myth that the Liberty Bell cracked during TJ funeral is just that...a myth
This phenomenon is something that has always intrigued me. My aunt passed away two weeks after my uncle. He was bedridden and seriously ill for a while, once he passed she just seemed to give up. It was as though she no longer had a purpose after he died. My cousin's husband died at his sister's wake. He had a heart attack and died right in the funeral home.
Somehow this thread kind of went off the trail.. My condolences to Doug and Darren.. I used to live in Natick. Mass.There was never an unkind word spoken about any of them..
I don't think it went off track as much as people understanding the situation through their own similar experience.
