[fhayek]

This is a heartbreaking story, both literally and figuratively.

[gorush]

Heartbreaking ? I suppose...but sweet, too.

[Semper911]

God bless the family. I’ll say a Hail Mary for them.

[BlessedBeGod]

[NRx]

Very sad. May their memory be eternal.

[Mercat]

He was walking her home. That’s how I want to go, with my sweetie of 46 years.

[pnut22]

My parents are both alive and in their mid eighties. That would be their hoped for closing.

[al baby]

Broken heart thing is real when my mom was about to pass the hospice care people asked me if my dad had any cardiac problems he did not... but they said they had nitro and a sedative on hand in case he went bonkers He lived another 7 painful years f sadness he was never the same after she left he had a hell of a sense of humor never heard him laugh again the were married over 60 years Prayers up to the Flutie Family

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This isn’t uncommon, for couples to die within hours of each other. There’s also the theory that couples tend to look identical after long marriages.

[rottndog]

I remember my grandma in the hospital dying of pancreatic cancer...one day she told grandpa she’d be waiting for him....he said he wouldn’t be long. He passed almost 6 months to the day that she did.

[big'ol_freeper]

Having lost a parent this past January I can’t imagine his heartbreak. Good man Flutie.

[truth_seeker]

No surprise here. My grandmother died four months after her youngest son died. (my father)

[Glad2bnuts]

How wonderful for them, I mean that. It is a blessing for a couple in love to pass in that manner.

[SamAdams76]

By the way, this coming Monday is the anniversary of the famous football game that put Doug Flutie on the map.

Boston College Eagles against Miami Hurricanes. BC won 47-45 on a Hail Mary pass play.

I remember watching that game. It was Thanksgiving weekend and I was in the Marine Corps stationed in California. It was a pretty incredible game but looking back at the clips, the quality of the video seems so prehistoric.

[jocon307]

They were in a dupras, is that what Kurt Vonnegut called it in Cat’s Cradle?

[Cyman]

The beautiful tale of Baucis and Philemon come to life and death

[ExCTCitizen]

Doug, you were a great QB! I remember that hail Mary you threw when you at BC. That was the highlight of BC’s greatness...:-)

[CPT Clay]

wow, god bless him and his family.

[djf]

Wow.

God bless them and their heirs and family.

[Daffynition]

Prayers for the family.

Deja vu Patrick Duffy.

[b4its2late]

Similar thing happened to friends parents on Christmas Eve a few years ago. The husband went out to warm up the car. When he was backing up to the door, he ran over his wife. He got out to help her, not putting it into park, probably not thinking clearly, and the car moved back more and ran over him too while he was trying to help her. They were both in their 80’s and both died that night.