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[super-heated plasma]

So touching. True love is real.

A California couple, married for three-quarters of a century, took their "til death do us part" vow seriously, passing away in each other's arms last month.

Jeanette and Alexander Toczko were born in 1919, met when they were just 8 years old and fell in love immediately, their children told KGTV in San Diego.

The couple married in 1940 and moved to San Diego in 1970, according to their daughter, Aimee Toczko-Cushman. She told KGTV that her parents couldn't bear the thought of being apart and said they hoped to one day die in their bed, holding hands.

"Their hearts beat as one from as long as I can remember," Toczko-Cushman said.

Until recently Alexander, 95, was healthy and playing golf every day, their son, Richard Toczko, told the news station.


"He must have fallen. He broke his hip," Toczko said. He told KGTV that his father never fully recovered and his health began fading quickly.

Unwilling to keep their parents apart, they had hospice bring Alexander Toczko's bed into the couple's home and place it beside his wife.

On June 17, he passed away.

"And he died in her arms, which is exactly what he wanted," Toczko-Cushman told KGTV. "I went in there and told my mother he was gone; she hugged him and she said, 'See this is what you wanted. You died in my arms, and I love you. I love you, wait for me, I'll be there soon.' "

Within 24 hours, she passed away, holding her husband's hand.

The couple was buried on June 29.

 

[Lamel]

God damn...

 

[T'Zariah]

Fuck me



What else is there to say

 

[HORRORSHØW]

dusty in here man

 

[Summer Haze]

Beautiful.

 

[Razmos]

Wait, so she just laid there in bed with the corpse for nearly a full day?

I mean yeah it's sweet and everything, but yeesh. Would a hospital even allow that?

 

[crazyprac]

Man... Fuck these onions.

 

[thekonamicode]

I'm fine really.

 

[Hyun Sai]

 

[brianjones]

must have been something he said

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Its the real life Notebook.

 

[Africanus]

Their story may be the purest manifestation of love I have ever heard.
Quite an endearing story!

Wait, so she just laid there in bed with the corpse for nearly a full day?

I mean yeah it's sweet and everything, but yeesh. Would a hospital even allow that?

I assume there was a small cross-over time between discovering the man had died, mourning, and then discovering the woman had died. It did say within 24 hours.

 

[nailbombxx]

That quote... This is what true love looks like. Wow.

 

[Master Yoshi]

must have been something he said

I.. Understood that reference.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Man... Fuck these onions.

The fumes from the cars in my place is worse.

 

[Savitar]

If there is anything in here after and people can be joined in happiness I hope they have it.

 

[Kittygirl]

I mean yeah it's sweet and everything, but yeesh. Would a hospital even allow that?

It's hospice, not a hospital. Even though my Mom died in hospital hospice, no one interferred with the family's caring for her. Hospice is to let the family say goodby as they want, or need. We spent over an hour just hugging her, kissing her, and saying goodby. Only one nurse disturbed us, because she didn't realize Mom was gone. She apologized, and shut the door so we could have privacy.

It calls back to the way most of humanity has died since existence.

 

[Tenebrous]

75 years... Fair play.

 

[iMax]

Wait, so she just laid there in bed with the corpse for nearly a full day?

I mean yeah it's sweet and everything, but yeesh. Would a hospital even allow that?

"the corpse"

sheesh

 

[F0rneus]

That's powerful. RIP.

 

[Chariot]

It's really awfully hot right now in Europe. There is sweat running from my eyes.

 

[Sesha]

Damn my allergies. Why did you have to be so early this year?

 

[Huevos de Oro]

75 years god damn.

 

[Razmos]

"the corpse"

sheesh

...that's what it is? hardly being insensitive by saying he's a corpse, that's what you become when you die, funnily enough.

 

[foxuzamaki]

;_; beautiful

 

[Souldestroyer Reborn]

God damn...

.

 

[Demy]

That's beautiful 😥

 

[Baroquemantic]

That's really beautiful.

 

[B-Dubs]

Damn man, it's raining pretty hard in here.

 

[Falcs]

That's how I plan to go with my wife.

 

[KazenY2J]

Damn man, it's raining pretty hard in here.

.

 

[peteykirch]

That makes me as sad as the scene from Titanic with the old people in bed holding each other as the water rushed into their room.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I read that around a bunch of coworkers and had to hold back those tears. That's some powerful stuff.

 

[RP912]

...I hope that can happen with me and the wife once we get tickets to the upper room.

 

[Feltrol]

Amazing how it just happened. Life is amazing and unexpected, too.

 

[ffdgh]

Wow...

 

[shadowkat]

:'(

 

[jwk94]

So she just held his hand for the next 24 hours??

 

[iNvid02]

those people's airbags should be offered to every old person

 

[iMax]

...that's what it is? hardly being insensitive by saying he's a corpse, that's what you become when you die, funnily enough.

It is a bit. I can't imagine the doctor's first words were "do you want to stay with that corpse until you pop off too?"

 

[zeemumu]

This story reminded me of that scene from Titanic

I hope their relationship was a happy one. 75 years is a long time.

 

[params7]

The definition of soul mate.

 

[wenis]

Yea sounds about right for a couple that many decades in and with that much love in their hearts.

My grandparents want to go out in a similar manner. My grandmother has even said to everyone in the family that as soon as my grandpa goes she won't be that far behind.

 

[hal9001]

nvm

 

[Dice]

This story reminded me of that scene from Titanic

I hope their relationship was a happy one. 75 years is a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WH8mHJnhM

 

[Candeldandel]

That's so sweet

 

[Shredderi]

Beautiful. Some people are just right for each other, eh?

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

It is a bit. I can't imagine the doctor's first words were "do you want to stay with that corpse until you pop off too?"

Yeah it just seems like a cold response, very clinical, detached from the human condition. Like how a cat might react when it's owner dies.

 

[zeemumu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WH8mHJnhM

Damn you, I'm tryin' to be sad, here.

 

[nib95]

That's touching. Reminds me of The Notebook!