Just A (rather complex) Question..

Adrianna32 · January 2012

How do you explain a broken heart? I've read some articles about it, but the phenomenon of a "broken heart" still amazes me. Three months after my great grandmother passed away, my great grandfather, her husband of 57 years, passed on too. He wasn't sick.. he just... went. My mother has told me countless times to be careful with my life, because her heart would break if anything ever happened to me. Mere days after I had to leave a dog behind, he passed on. He was perfectly healthy, wasnt starving, his sudden death couldn't be explained by his vet of six years. My cousin claims he died of a broken heart. Which made me feel terrible, so I tried to deny it, but she said that while he was alive she could just tell. A lingering sadness was constantly with him. I don't know if shes crazy, or if it really is possible. My cousin's mother passed on, a few weeks later, his grandmother. Before she died she had been claiming that her heart was broken, and that she couldn't find the will to live if her daughter wasn't there. I see it all the time.. Someone loses a person they cant stand to live without... then just gives up. Or their heart gives in. So what is it? Chronic depression? Can someone really pass on just because they don't want to live anymore. Can someone really will their body to stop functioning? To stop fighting for life? Perhaps it really is just adrenalin over whelming the heart to create some sort of undetectable heart attack. (That's one scientific explanation I've read). Or maybe, emotions go farther then what we can physically show. Maybe there is such a thing as loving someone too much? I dunno. I was just listening to my grandmother say she could never go on without my grandfather. And this question arose in my head. Figure I'd see what you guys think.

Alabama · January 2012

I honestly think it's possible and most likely due to deep depression. Mental thought processes can do amazing things to the physical body. Stress can be the cause of a heart attack, so it stands to reason if a person or animal is severely stressed by the loss of a loved one that it might be enough to cause a heart attack and death.

lovefrompaige · January 2012

This whole conversation reminds me of Where The Red Fern Grows... The dogs in there died of a broken heart... Idk. I think it's possible. I don't know scientifically if it's true, its just something that I think can happen.

Finster2 · January 2012

I think it's possible too. My grandparents used to own a pair of Dobes: Darth and Brandy. Darth passed away due to bloat, and Brandy was just.. not the same. She wouldn't eat, she wasn't her happy go lucky self. Darth was her best friend. The two dogs were inseparable. Brandy ended up dying I think only a week after Darth did. ;__; She was a young and perfectly healthy dog too.

Rock_N_Roll_Queen90 · January 2012

I absolutely think it's possible, and I think it must be the most worse way to die. I had two ferrets, Zoe and Dagger. Zoe had cancer and she was a little older than Dagger. Dagger was fat, and healthy when Zoe died, but within three days, all the while literally making little crying noises, he passed away.

Adrianna32 · January 2012

@ Bama- See, that's what I was thinking... until it happened to my cousin's grandmother. She knew she couldn't go on. She said that she had a broken heart, and could feel it. She knew she was going to die because of the loss of her daughter. She just wanted to give up, and it happened. She gave up, so she passed on. Maybe it was just the stress that she was feeling. But I'm sure the pain of a broken heart is unlike any other. I don't think the heart attack crept up on her and just happened, if she already knew it was coming.. and willed it to happen?? I don't know. Maybe I don't make sense. But I just.. feel.. like it could possibly be something more then what can be scientifically explained sometimes. Either way, the fact that we can love another being so much, that we simply cannot survive without them, still amazes me. Love is capable of causing life, and death, apparently. It's a very simple, but complex thing in my mind. @ Paige - That's the movie I was thinking about when I made this thread. Gets me tearing up everytime I watch it. @ Finny and Rockie - It's always the saddest thing to see when an animal's best friend passes before him. Its happened to my boys, and nothing can really fix it. I even tried getting another friend for my dog, but he ended up passing as well. Animals can bond like humans can, and you cant just replace a lost friend when it comes to humans. So.. I don't know why I even tried.

Minx · January 2012

Im in a psychology class and yesterday my professor commented on how strong the subconscious of the human mind is. A placebo is a sugar pill given to patients and told that its medicine. Many people actually get better just by THINKING they will, so why cant a person who mentally cannot go on not be able to make themselves worse with their minds just like they make themselves better with their minds?

Adrianna32 · January 2012

I took Psych too. So I was definitely thinking about what the mind can do while considering this topic. What you said is definitely possible. How else would that person or animal ignore all instincts to eat, drink, or even move. My cousin's grandmother just stayed in one place, crying, until she died. That just wouldn't be possible unless the mind wasn't working right.

Mileysmybaby · February 2012

VampireVenom wrote:

Im in a psychology class and yesterday my professor commented on how strong the subconscious of the human mind is. A placebo is a sugar pill given to patients and told that its medicine. Many people actually get better just by THINKING they will, so why cant a person who mentally cannot go on not be able to make themselves worse with their minds just like they make themselves better with their minds?

Good theory! ;D

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