can you die of a broken heart?

Can you be so heart broken and depressed that you just die?

Like Bob says, it happens so often in the elderly. they spend a lifetime together and suddenly one passes on and the other is so utterly lost that they can literally die of a broken heart.

In a way yea you can, cause if you don't eat or sleep.If you just lay around, and don't let you body get what it needs , and if its the result of a broken heart then yea you can die of a broken heart.

I agree with Bob and Bret, yes you can die from a broken heart. My mom nearly died when she was younger and very much in love with my dad. They weren't married yet and he was away in the navy and she didn't think he was coming back to her, she couldn't eat or sleep and got very weak and cried all the time. She finally got some help and got better.

I think it is completely possible to die of a broken heart, but not teenage angst heart break.

Like Bob and Bret said, it normally happens when a person is more of a soul mate and you have spent your life with them, but heart break can be the worst kind of pain there is, and who would want to live like that?

Ashley-

When was the last time a teenager died of a broken heart?

It's all relative, meaning that teenage heartbreak is a big deal because it is the first, you are pure and then tainted with emotional baggage and you begin to associate pain with love. It's a big deal because it's all new and unexpected, and also because you have never experianced that type of pain before, but when you have spent your whole life with someone, and then you lose them, it is a much bigger deal than your first heart break because you are losing a soul mate (that is, if true love is involved).

So I disagree that teenage heart break is worse, if you die of a broken heart, that is obviously the worst pain you could be in on some level.

yeah ! i was about to kill myself when i was heart broken... but i stopped ... cause i found out that there more to life then love and stuff

People have died from it, they call it "natural cause," but it happens when one partner dies and the other dies shortly after. Many deaths are determined to be "natural cause," which, in short, means they dont really know what the hell happened.

Depends on how serious it was. If it was just a boyfriend/girlfriend Then chanses are you'll feel so hurt. but you'll get over it.
but if they were soul mates, married or together for years and years... then yes.
My grandpa passed away . and within two months my grandma did too. (They were together for 45 years) Nothing was wrong with her except her smoking habbit. wich... her lungs were fine. She just didnt have no one to live for love.

but i honestly think if my fionce died, i'd die or felt like i died. and i dont have any one else to live for. and i dont think that someone else would want to be with me when im that heartbroken.

-Courtney

Yes you can if I lost the one I love I know thats how I would die

why do you want to know??

-Becca

I think that a person can.

Here's a story, I hate to relate love to dogs, but hey , whatever gets the point across:

My dad had two dogs when he was younger, boy and a girl. Yorkshire terriors, one black, one white. They lived together for 14 years. Couldn't ever break them apart. If you saw one, you saw the other right beside it. Then black dog developed a lung disease, and passed away. The white one wasn't the same after that. It was lonely, and died a month later because he missed the other one so much.

It's funny how much a broken heart can do to someone.