They believed life is fair and they accepted that death is part of life.

The fact that they were admitted to hospice means they had a limited life span, but that does not make the death any less sad or poignant.

Getting down early like that in rally scoring, that's the kiss of death. To make that kind of comeback is very difficult.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offered relief and escape. The old paradigm would have seen this absence of grief as emotional inhibition or a form of denial, but in our view, these are people for whom bereavement serves as the end of a chronic source of stress.

But 46 percent of the widows and widowers in this study reported that they had satisfying marriages. They believed that life is fair and they accepted that death is a part of life.