Even If You’re Married You Can Die Alone – Elderly Married Couple Found Dead
Sad story linked to below.
One scare tactic people (usually my fellow conservatives) will pull on singles to get them to hurry up and marry is to tell them that if they remain single, they will die alone, or that being married some how makes dying easier.
By the way, side note, here – if the church did its job and acted as spiritual family to everyone, instead of focusing on their blood relations, then elderly single people who are unrelated to them would do just fine.
A Christian man or woman should not have to marry to have “family” look after them – if churches stopped worshipping The Nuclear Family and actually got off their marriage-worshipping asses, they could look after elderly people who live alone!
Anyway, about this view that you should marry or have to so that you won’t die alone: this is a pretty dumb argument, because married people die alone all the time.
My mother died in the wee hours of the morning in a hospital. She was supposed to be there for only about a week before returning home.
My father and I were not with her when she passed – we got a phone call from the nursing staff that she had passed away. My mother was married to my father. Her being married did not prevent her from dying, nor was my father with her when she died.
In this story below, an elderly married couple died. They were ‘kind of’ together when they died, but it did not help them.
The husband in the story had dementia, and the wife could not walk, or not walk well.
The husband accidentally drove off the road, got the car stuck in the mud, left his wife in the car to go get help, walked down the street – he died (not sure if he had a heart attack of what).
His wife died in the car, some X feet away from her husband who was dead on the road side.
She was in the car alone in temperatures over 80 degrees. (Remember, she could not walk, or found it difficult, and her son or the cops or whomever, found her wheelchair back at her house, it was not in the car with her.)
Okay: so you can be married and still end up dying. You can end up dying alone.
I’m not sure if your husband dying a few feet of where you are (as in this story) would be any more comforting than your husband not being there at all.
So to all the singleness-shamers out there, stop telling us singles that we’ll die all alone, because you know what, married people? You may die all alone, too.
Not everyone dies in a warm, cozy bed surrounded with the smiling faces of loved ones before they kick off.
(Link): He was his wife’s caretaker for decades but got dementia. Their deaths were ‘horrific’
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT
Aug 2017
…Getting around became even more difficult for the Tarnowskis – Mary, 78, and Ron, 81. The couple hardly ever left the home which their son, Karl Tarnowski, built adjacent to his own so he could keep an eye on them.
…On Saturday afternoon, eight days after the couple went missing, the family received their answer, and a tragic end to their strenuous search.
A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter found the couple’s Chevy Tahoe on an overgrown, abandoned driveway in a swampy area off the road just two miles away from the family’s hunting property.
They were near Brookston, a town about 30 miles from their Duluth home.
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