People do actually die of a broken heart. There are many famous examples, including Debbie Reynolds, Johnny Cash, and the American writer Jim Harrison.

People do actually die of a broken heart. There are many famous examples, including Debbie Reynolds, Johnny Cash, and the American writer Jim Harrison.
When Harrison was seven years old, he was stabbed in the eye by a neighbor girl wielding a broken bottle during a quarrel and was blinded. His father and sister were killed in a car accident when he was twenty-one.