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When your partner's cause of death becomes your expected ending

My spouse died of a heart attack in his sleep next to me and now I'm terrified to go to bed because what if the same thing happens to me and no one will know. The nights feel endless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Widowhood can make a partner's manner of dying feel like a preview of one's own inevitable fate.

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