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2 Men Shared Heart, Wife, Manner of Death
WTOC Savannah GA ^
| April 7, 2008
| Staff
Posted on 04/07/2008 1:56:40 PM PDT by Amelia
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (AP) - Terry Cottle and Sonny Graham never met, but the two men shared two very important things - a heart and a wife.
They also died the same way: Cottle, 12 years ago from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Summerville home he shared with his wife, Cheryl; the 69-year-old Graham died the same way last week outside his Vidalia, Georgia, home that he shared with his wife, Cheryl.
When Cottle died at age 33, his organs were donated. Graham got Cottle's heart and nine years later, he married Cottle's widow.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: blackwidow
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Pretty weird.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:56:41 PM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Amelia
I see a Lifetime movie coming!
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:57:30 PM PDT
by
CWW
(Make the most of the loss, and regroup for 2008!!)
To: Amelia
Wow...she must have been hell to live with.
To: Amelia
Sad story, but begging for one liners.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:58:19 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: Amelia
Is that the end of that heart?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:58:39 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nmh
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:59:33 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: ravingnutter
I am guess that no one will want that heart or the lady for a wife.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:00:12 PM PDT
by
trumandogz
("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
To: ravingnutter
Wow...she must have been hell to live with. I wondered about that.
I've also heard that transplant recipients sometimes develop interests of the donor, or begin liking foods, etc., that they never did before...I wonder if a tendency toward suicide could also be transferred?
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:01:36 PM PDT
by
Amelia
(Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know....)
To: nmh
Is that the end of that heart?I think they found this 2nd guy already dead, so I don't know if the heart was transplantable by the time they got him to the hospital.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:02:28 PM PDT
by
Amelia
(Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know....)
To: Amelia
I just checked my organ donor card and it says nothing about the wife comes with the heart.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:02:29 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
Heart transplant recipient Sonny Graham, left, and his wife, Cheryl, pray during a moment of silence in this Dec. 1, 2006 file photo.
To: Amelia
Confucius, say, “better to receive man’s heart than man’s wife”.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:04:10 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: Amelia
I’d hate to know what a heart transplant costs.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:07:06 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Amelia
I think they found this 2nd guy already dead, so I don't know if the heart was transplantable by the time they got him to the hospital.I think having a transplanted organ makes you too risky to donate your organs.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:10:57 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are doom and gloomers (and liberals) so bad at math?)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Cheryl looks ... um .... hot.
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:11:01 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Old Geezer got a newer heart and a younger wife in the deal...then off’s himself? Oh well....
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:11:11 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: nmh
the transplant itself is actually fairly cheap. it is all the treatment/meds that follow that run the bill up
To: Amelia
I’m wondering if the shots were really SELF-inflicted
To: SendShaqtoIraq
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:12:34 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are doom and gloomers (and liberals) so bad at math?)
To: Amelia
Self inflicted? Both of her husbands? What are the odds?
sw
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posted on
04/07/2008 2:17:12 PM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
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