75th anniversary couple die in each other's arms- so rare

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(clicky)couple die in each other's arms right on the cusp of their 75th wedding anniversary- why is this so rare? why is it so damned hard for more compatible people to pair up? I gots to know.



they were SO LUCKY

That's a very sweet story.

and such a rare story as well.

Back in those days I believe life was more "innocent". Now, we have the internet that makes cheating much more easy and available (they even have cheating websites). People are able to meet others much more easily. Sex is more freer and out in the open (TV, books, movies, porn sites). Divorce is more accepted along with single mothers raising children now making men feel much less needed as fathers. Marriage is not seen as a respectable way to live since couples can just live together. Imo, the "Women's Movement" was when things took a turn along with the 60's movement of "Free Love".

I still have patients that have been married for 60+ years and have nothing but great things to say about their marriage and spouse. Some, though, say they would never do it again including my own Ma who has been married to my Pa for 50+ years. The more I think about it, I really think it depends on the people involved and the reason why they got married.

all I know is I have long wanted what they have. mebbe my luck will be better in the next life...

I find this kind of sad.

Oh my god. That's profoundly moving. It's exactly like that movie (won't say which in case it spoils it for someone who hasn't seen it yet).

I'm with you auntblabby; I'm eternally perplexed at how some people manage to find such a soulmate connection that actually endures and doesn't wilt or tarnish or sour. And I too always wanted this, but never found it. Maybe the next life, indeed.

I don't think of it as sad, because they both wanted to never live without the other, and they got their wish.

My parents didn't exactly die at the same time, but my dad did get through only two years without my mum, before dying also, and I've always thought it was because he couldn't stand life without her. He got through one anniversary of her death and died just short of the second, almost like he just couldn't stand the reminder. He passed of a ruptured aneurysm in his sleep but I feel strongly that the body responds to the mind over time, and his mind and body just didn't like life without my mum.

I know a man who is suffering greatly because his wife died years ago.

I chose Ice Cream (I always choose Ice Cream)

But I really believe that people frequently just on different paths in life.

In some ways, the 1970s and early 1980s were somewhat freer sexually than the present day (for heterosexuals).

For gay couples, it's no contest: The 2010s are the most free for them. Gay Rights was just starting in the 1970s--there was no concept of "gay marriage" back then.

they got to have many good decades together. when I feel utterly defective I can think of them and be comforted that there is some love in this world even if I don't get to experience it.