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When death came, they were together, and that's all that really mattered.

Through 73 years of marriage, Angela and John Molella were inseparable.

They shared everything. Including, at the end, a hospital room.

As they both lay dying, she looked over at her husband and said: "John, we grew up together, and now we're going to die together."

They almost did.

Their love story is now being shared online, in a video put out by the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. It's a story their family hopes will help illustrate two rather simple lessons: that love endures, that it ennobles, that it inspires; and that while doctors and nurses cannot conquer death, they can make it easier through their caring and their compassion.

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The hospital made a video, using actors to play the dying couple, to remind staff members just how much difference they can make in people's lives, said Dr. Curtis Johnston, facility medical director at the Royal Alex.

"It's reminder of why we went into health care in the first place," he said. "Every health-care professional went into it to make a difference to patients."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-couple-s-love-story-goes-viral-with-inspirational-video-1.3416786

 



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Awe!

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That's beautiful!

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It's a nice story--but really, THOUSANDS of people pledge "until death do us part"-but they just can't manage to die at the same darn time. Does that mean their marriages weren't as "good"?



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huskerbb wrote:

It's a nice story--but really, THOUSANDS of people pledge "until death do us part"-but they just can't manage to die at the same darn time. Does that mean their marriages weren't as "good"?

 No, it doesn't mean that.

Why would you ask such a ridiculous question?



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weltschmerz wrote:
huskerbb wrote:

It's a nice story--but really, THOUSANDS of people pledge "until death do us part"-but they just can't manage to die at the same darn time. Does that mean their marriages weren't as "good"?

 No, it doesn't mean that.

Why would you ask such a ridiculous question?

 Then why do these people make the news, and not some couple who were married for 55 years, but then he dies and she lives another 20 years?

 

Where is that news story?  This is just a coincidence that they happened to die very close in time to each other.  They didn't plan it that way any more than the woman planned to be a widow for a couple of decades.  



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Good grief!
I post a nice human interest story and all you do is b!tch.


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weltschmerz wrote:

Good grief!
I post a nice human interest story and all you do is b!tch.

 Seriously, right?!

Lighten up, husker.

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LOL!!! You are telling me to "lighten up" when you got your panties all in a twist over the "snow" thread.

Better take your own advice.

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That's because their snow storm is better (or worse) than my snow storm, nah nah nah. The fact it is in the news is because it's the second largest snow storm in the history of the Mid-Atlantic since record keeping began in the 1800's. And that seems to bother some people.

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