2 Quotes by Deborah Carr

These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offered relief and escape. The old paradigm would have seen this absence of grief as emotional inhibition or a form of denial, but in our view, these are people for whom bereavement serves as the end of a chronic source of stress.

The couple that dies close to one another from love does seem to work on a story level. But under dry, clinical observation it doesn't work.