Is It Possible To Die Of Love?
The death of a loved one can affect us in many ways. But is ‘dying for love’ really true?
The idea that a person can die of love has been raised several times in literature and not only today, but long before the birth of Shakespeare and other great writers. It was considered as something beautiful and, even, the culmination of the romantic. But is it really so?
The famous Romeo and Juliet that so many hearts have made jump will surely come to mind. Or the news that is sometimes published in the media that tells the story of a couple who dies at the same time or people who die a few days after their spouse has died.
Love is a very intense feeling and even difficult to explain. Only a few can feel what it is to truly love. For this reason, there are those who say that if you really feel love, it will be difficult for you to describe it.
Broken heart syndrome
Love is such an intense feeling that, at times, it makes people very close. When one dies, the other does so in days or hours.
It is not uncommon to hear this type of news, but what is true in this? Is it true that it was a death for love or for some other problem ? Is this what is known as broken heart syndrome?
The truth is that there is a broken heart syndrome. In 1991, cardiologists in Hiroshima, Japan, were the first to report a heart syndrome that seemed to affect mostly women and exhibited symptoms that mimicked an acute myocardial infarction. The strange thing was that the people who suffered from it did not have a history of heart disease or any related health problems, usually.
It appears that an acute stress situation can increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. This is confirmed by research such as the one published in 2007 by the Netherlands Heart Journal.
This syndrome is real and refers, as we have seen, to a cardiovascular problem. However, there is no “broken heart syndrome” that causes people to die from love, but rather from stress-related symptoms.
Love: beautiful, but deadly?
Apparently love is not as beautiful as we think. It is clear that it is not possible to die for love, but it seems that there could be some relationship between being a widower and the increased risk of death.
There have been several studies that have been carried out on this subject. A very important one was published in the English journal Epidemiology in 2011 , carried out with 117,000 couples since 1991, which tried to determine the extent of the widowhood effect.
Different factors such as anxiety or depression have been validated as possible consequences. The loss of a partner causes a part of us to “die.”
If your interior is not healthy and if your mind is not calm, all this can manifest itself, sooner or later, physically. It is not the first time that a psychological pain has been transformed into a physical symptom.
For example, if we have not managed to overcome a loss or solve a problem that affects our mood and causes us anxiety and depression, we may end up developing headaches or stomach pains for no apparent reason.
Death of love
It is profound and authentic that two people cannot continue their lives without each other, but curiously most of the couples in which this happens are quite old, so it cannot be determined with certainty that it is a “death for love” .
There could be an essential component of coexistence for long years that has been able to generate a certain dependency, with the consequent symptoms of seeing themselves alone in the world if the other person is not there.
In short, the broken heart syndrome exists, but it is not real that we can die of love as such. On the other hand, it seems that there could be a relationship between the death of men who become widowed and when the cause of the death of their wives is a cause of risk.
