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72 years together and they die holding hands

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"It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going," said Dennis Yeager. "But we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up."
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That sounds like bullshit.
 
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doctordoak said:
Yeah, cute story except for the fact that he shouldn't have been driving and caused a car accident.
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This. He pretty much killed his beloved and seriously injured another couple.
 
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Ferrio said:
That sounds like bullshit.
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since pulses are carried through thumbs, i can see how a sensitive machine could probably pick her heartbeat while the machine is connected to him.
 
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CFMOORE! said:
since pulses are carried through thumbs, i can see how a sensitive machine could probably pick her heartbeat while the machine is connected to him.
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No. I still don't buy it. I think a medical institution would get in serious trouble if all it took was holding hands for the machine to give false results.
 
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CFMOORE! said:
since pulses are carried through thumbs, i can see how a sensitive machine could probably pick her heartbeat while the machine is connected to him.
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That sounds highly improbable.
 
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I think that is amazing. I would love to be able to be with my wife that long and for neither of us to have to suffer alone.
 
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Kurdel said:
That sounds highly improbable.
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eh. i was just making a case for it. it isn't like it is written as some lame "their love is making heart still beat" kind of feel good commentary. it sounds like from a medical perspective the nurse just said "hey, it can happen".

Go find a dead person in a hospital and hold hands with them.
 
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LMAO at that music.

Sad story though.
 
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The couple reportedly were holding hands Tuesday at their funeral in their casket. Their family said the plan was to cremate them together and mix their ashes.
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Oh wow, imagine the mortician set with the job of clasping their hands together and make it look natural.

The whole thing is just so weird to me...

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Go find a dead person in a hospital and hold hands with them.
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Brb
 
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CFMOORE! said:
since pulses are carried through thumbs, i can see how a sensitive machine could probably pick her heartbeat while the machine is connected to him.
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Heartrate and O2 monitors -- ie. pulse oximeters that are clipped onto your finger -- are done by optical absorption of red and infrared wavelengths. So yeah, it's impossible for the heartbeat monitor to pick it up.

You can still have a pulse if you're not breathing, by the way. Just that it won't last very long.
 
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I'm surprised there are more doctors in this thread than at the hospital where it happened.
 
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What the hell are 90-something-year-olds doing driving?!
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Yeah. One of my friends almost died in a car crash last year caused by some old guy who was nearly 80, I think. He had to be air lifted to a hospital and was in a coma for a couple months. He has suffered permanent physical and brain damage (nothing too serious, just can't run fast and has slurred speech).
 
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Why do you want to drive when you're 90?


You don't work, no one who has any amount of decency is going to make you drive to come see them, and hopefully there's some sort of arrangement to get you food without you having to get out.
 
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