Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies

[Fla Dem]

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies
'Her grief was so intense,' hospital worker says
Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Posted: 12:28 PM EDT (1628 GMT)

TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body.

Results of an autopsy were not immediately released, but friends of Karen Unruh-Wahrer said she couldn't stop crying over losing her 25-year-old son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed by enemy fire near Baghdad on September 25.

"Her grief was so intense -- it seemed it could have harmed her, could have caused a heart attack. Her husband described it as a broken heart," said Cheryl Hamilton, manager of respiratory care services at University Medical Center, where Unruh-Wahrer worked as a respiratory therapist.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/05/soldiers.mother.ap/index.html

So sad, and there has been over a thousand other sad stories.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[SoCalDem]

1. Not surprising at all.. A 28 yr old woman died of fright

when her car stalled on an unguarded railroad crossing..

She was the young wife of a client of mine...many years ago.. The train ( a very slow freight) did hit the car, and the police found her huddled over top of her baby, on the floor of the passenger side..

Neither had a scratch on them, but she was dead..

Why she did not get out of the car, no one knows.. It was not ruled a suicide.. she just panicked and died.