Posted on 07/16/2010 6:03:17 PM PDT by RDTF
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. When the elevator in their home got stuck between floors, Sherwood and Caroline Wadsworth found themselves trapped with no way to call for help as temperatures rose into the 90s. They finally died from heat exhaustion in the closet-sized lift.
Autopsies on the elderly couple — he was 90, she was 89 — on Thursday pointed to a tragic end to lives they shared for more than 60 years. Police estimated they had been dead at least four days before a newspaper carrier called 911 out of concern that papers had piled up by their garage.
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Sad...yet not.
That is so sad.
It’s one way I would love Mr’s Robroy and me to go. Together, mainly. I’m wondering if they suffered much.
Two things could have helped.
1. cell phone
2. a way to open the door from inside
I'm sorry to say they did,, one had to see the other die. GOD is cruel! Reason I'm a non believer........
“Two things could have helped.
1. cell phone
2. a way to open the door from inside”
That MIGHT help, but I read a posting from one of their grandchildren. They were stubborn and set in their ways...who knows if they would have even understood a cell phone.
Bottom line - as people approach 90 years old, it’s a really good idea to have people either living with them, or checking on them at least daily (preferably twice or more daily). Otherwise, these things WILL happen - as happened to a friend of mine.
And the kids who never came by their house to check on them will get rich suing the elevator maker....
What an awful end! RIP They should have had a rule to never get in the elevator together.
So sad. Terrible way to go. I hope they didn’t suffer too much.
Oh stop it....and grow up. God had nothing to do with their demise. Stop being a child and learn a little bit about that which you denigrate.
We moved to Arizona 10 months ago. One of the homes we looked at had an elevator from the garage to the main floor. There wasn’t a stairway. You either had to use the elevator or go outside, up the steps and in the front door. My husband remarked what a nightmare it would be if you were in the elevator and had a power outage. We didn’t buy that house. Very sad for the couple. I’m sure this is not the way they envisioned their end. Prayers for the family.
Good points. I cannot imagine having parents or grandparents this old and not checking on them daily.
I would have gone insanse before dying of the heat, as I have claustrophobia.
Those two sentences make absolutely no sense together.
>>I’m sorry to say they did,, one had to see the other die. GOD is cruel! Reason I’m a non believer........<<
Yes, I can tell by your perspective.
“That MIGHT help, but I read a posting from one of their grandchildren. They were stubborn and set in their ways...who knows if they would have even understood a cell phone.”
My mother is that age, and she uses an iMac - to run a business.
I thought they made those small elevators with some kind of gravity drop with a soft landing using air pressure just for this kind of problem. I don’t know where I got the idea.
Yeah, that’ll show HIM. (sarcasm). This is a fallen world, bad things happen. 90 years in comparison with eternity is nothing; they’re probably dancing in heaven now and have long forgotten GA and a finicky elevator.
If Edith Stein (St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) can have faith in all she went through, the rest of us can.
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