The Newspaper, An elderly couple from Heist-op-den-Berg, Jos Claes and Gusta Schoovaerts, with a few seconds of difference death. They were both 89. “Who first died, could even be the doctor is not to say. It happened so quickly,” says their son Geert.
“Their health was the last few months little by little backward, until two weeks ago suddenly what faster went”, says Geert. “Now it was their candle out. They are, with some of their children there, naturally died. They lay together in bed.”
That happened on a emotional place. “The nursing home where she died, used to serve as headquarters and the room where my parents stayed, was a delivery room. She died in the room where seven of their eight children were born. For two people who each other very like to have seen, that is a very nice farewell.”
Overcome with emotion
Dying of sadness: according to psychologist and rouwexpert Manu Keirse, we should be taken literally. “I don’t know of a man of whom the father died and the mother after the emergency services had called the life left – also right after each other,” says Keirse. “These people were at the end of their life and their health was weak. If the one partner knows that the other has died or that there is very bad, can be overcome by emotions. And that has also on the body has a very large impact.” (AVH)
