Amazing... til death do us part

BunsenBurner
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:07:30 +0000

[Local News | Couple die together after 62 years of marriage | Seattle Times Newspaper](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008695378_apwadyingtogether.html)



KINGSTON, Wash. —
Death, like everything in their 62-year marriage, was something the Mosers faced together.

Eighty-four-year-old Robert, whose health had declined steadily in recent years, always expected to go first. His 80-year-old wife, Darlene, had been his steady caretaker at the Seatter Road home they built with their own hands.

That is, until December, when a cancer gave her precious few weeks of life to live.

When Robert learned Darlene was terminally ill, he quickly grumbled: “I’m terminal, too.”…

And as his wife lay beside him in her last moments on Jan. 23, Robert, too, began to die, to the amazement of his family and hospice caretakers.

Only six hours separated their deaths…



He did not let death separate them.