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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

Anyone else read the story on the BBC news site about a couple in the USA, married for 62 years, who died at the same time?

Don and Maxine Simpson from Bakersfield, California, died four hours apart on adjoining beds, holding hands during some of their final hours.

Wonderfully touching story i think.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That is perfect they were very lucky to have been able to do that

Ive become all emotional now

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

It's a better joint ending than where one is driving a car and decides they have seen enough of life and promptly heads for the nearest cliff.

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest


"It's a better joint ending than where one is driving a car and decides they have seen enough of life and promptly heads for the nearest cliff. "

Oh Tina, you old Romantic you...

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts


"It's a better joint ending than where one is driving a car and decides they have seen enough of life and promptly heads for the nearest cliff.

Oh Tina, you old Romantic you..."

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

How lovely

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

You've made me feel all soppy, Scotty. To think we'll probably die on separate continents many years apart.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"You've made me feel all soppy, Scotty. To think we'll probably die on separate continents many years apart. "

It is a beautifully soppy story, but also quite amazing..

Isn't it brilliant that something like this can actually happen.

(i don't get out a lot, so this will keep me pondering and wondering for weeks! hahaha)

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"You've made me feel all soppy, Scotty. To think we'll probably die on separate continents many years apart.

It is a beautifully soppy story, but also quite amazing..

Isn't it brilliant that something like this can actually happen.

(i don't get out a lot, so this will keep me pondering and wondering for weeks! hahaha)

"

Here, hold my hand...

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By *offee and Cream 2Couple (MM)
over a year ago

Loughborough

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How did they die?

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

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credit to Foxnews:

According to the couple's granddaughter, Melissa Sloan, the Simpsons, of Bakersfield, Calif., passed away approximately four hours apart on the morning of July 21. Maxine, 87, had suffered from bladder cancer, while 90-year-old Don had struggled with Alzheimer's disease and suffered a broken hip and pneumonia in the week before his death.

The couple had lived in Bakersfield since the early 1950s, though neither were California natives They were introduced by mutual friends at a local bowling alley. Don proposed six months later, and they were married in 1952.

After their marriage, the two traveled to Germany, where Don worked as a civil engineer for the U.S. Army. While there, the two adopted two sons from a German orphanage. After they returned to Bakersfield, Don ran his own civil engineering firm, while Maxine worked as a nurse.

In early June, the ailing couple moved in with Sloan in order to be near family. Don had entered the hospital for treatment on his broken hip and pneumonia, but Sloan had him moved back into her home on July 19, and placed his bed next to Maxine's.

Maxine died at 7 a.m. on the 21st. At 10 a.m., as her body was being taken from the room, Sloan noticed her grandfather's breathing was becoming labored. Within the hour, he was dead as well.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"How did they die? "

lack of breath..

gets us all in the end..

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"How did they die?

lack of breath..

gets us all in the end.."

See how long I can count before you go purple ....... Go !!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"How did they die? "

Lack of life perhaps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How did they die? "

Short of breath

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"How did they die?

lack of breath..

gets us all in the end..

See how long I can count before you go purple ....... Go !!"

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

My eyes are leaking now!!

THATS the way to go.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"When her body left the room," Sloan told The Bakersfield Californian, "his soul left with her."

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


""When her body left the room," Sloan told The Bakersfield Californian, "his soul left with her.""

Damn this grit in my eye. After the afternoon I have had I am blubbing reading this.

Stroppy cow will return shortly.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


""When her body left the room," Sloan told The Bakersfield Californian, "his soul left with her."

Damn this grit in my eye. After the afternoon I have had I am blubbing reading this.

Stroppy cow will return shortly.

"

Glad its not just me that is experience high levels of grit

x

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

When my Granddad died, my gran died pretty much that day. It just took her body 2 years or so to catch on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...

Maxine died at 7 a.m. on the 21st. At 10 a.m., as her body was being taken from the room, Sloan noticed her grandfather's breathing was becoming labored. Within the hour, he was dead as well. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How lovely!

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