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I was watching some bullshit ghost "reality" TV show earlier where the woman said her Mother died of a broken heart and was haunting the house and I thought to myself what a crock of shit, she was probably just elderly and sickly.
In the olden days when medicine/forensics weren't as advanced, I suspect that people who were thought to have died of a broken heart really succumbed to a virus or infection, had a heart attack, stroke, cancer, or other fatal affliction, or simply committed suicide by a method that wasn't physically violent and obvious to observers (i.e., drugs, poison).
One can also be so depressed that they just stop eating/drinking and waste away, but, dehydration/malnutrition is what actually kills you in that case, not a broken heart.
We all know people in our lives that have lost children, spouses, parents, siblings, etc., that were very dear to them, and none drop dead from broken hearts, right?
In the olden days when medicine/forensics weren't as advanced, I suspect that people who were thought to have died of a broken heart really succumbed to a virus or infection, had a heart attack, stroke, cancer, or other fatal affliction, or simply committed suicide by a method that wasn't physically violent and obvious to observers (i.e., drugs, poison).
One can also be so depressed that they just stop eating/drinking and waste away, but, dehydration/malnutrition is what actually kills you in that case, not a broken heart.
We all know people in our lives that have lost children, spouses, parents, siblings, etc., that were very dear to them, and none drop dead from broken hearts, right?