Tragic Love Story: Couple Dies Within Hours of Each Other

In a heart-wrenching incident, a couple from Kafr Shibra Zenga, Egypt, died within 20 hours of each other. Soad Azam passed away first, followed by her husband who succumbed to grief.


Tragic Love Story: Couple Dies Within Hours of Each Other

As a result of the tragic events, where the Egyptian community was deeply shocked, the man passed away just 20 hours after losing his beloved. The spouses - Saada and Mohamad Azam - were buried in the nearby cemetery after their funeral in the mosque. His son, Raafat Mohamad, spoke about a profound love that connected him to his parents. He recalled that when his mother fell ill and was hospitalized, his father suffered greatly, but the family concealed their father's condition, fearing for his health. Raafat added that the family hid their father's grief over the death of their mother for some time, but he felt this and fell into deep sorrow, unable to hold back tears. "Twenty hours after my mother's death, we discovered that my father had left this world due to the heavy grief he was feeling," he said. A cardiologist from Egypt, former director of the National Heart Institute, Jamal Shaban, warns about the danger to life from the syndrome of broken heart. He previously stated that "grief can lead to heart attacks and sudden death," emphasizing that "broken heart syndrome is a scientific fact and a medical syndrome." He also confirmed that "grief activates the sympathetic nervous system, triggers the release of adrenaline, which compresses the heart, causes shortening in the heart function and expansion in the upper chambers."