Heart Transplant Recipient Commits Suicide Just Like Donor
SONNY Graham was dying.
His heart was giving out. But there came a call. The good news was that Terry Cottle had died first. He’d committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Sonny could have Terry’s heart.
Operation arranged. Operation a success.
Mr Graham, 69, wanted to thank the donor’s family. He began writing to Mr Cottle’s widow, Cheryl, 39. They fell in love. In 2004, they married.
Said Mrs Graham: “It helped me so much. Meeting Sonny made it easier for me, knowing something so good came from something so bad.”
“I felt like I had known her for years,” Mr Graham said. “I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. I just stared.”
Now 12 years on, Mrs Graham is grieving once more.
Mr Graham is dead. He has killed himself with a shotgun.
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April 9th, 2008 at 3:26 am
16 Yampster
No, just expelling the residual phlegm from donated lungs.
Great word that, phlegm. Phlegm phlegm phlegm. Paul, Heather, LEG, Mills
April 9th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Allegedly
April 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Yampster,
So Naomi Campbell was chatting up that copper then?
April 8th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
15
penster
You should never swap spit on a first date
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
11 noseycow
Like coughing up someone else’s phlegm?
April 8th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Don’t be so bloody cruel, you lot.
Have a heart…..
April 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Nothing she can say, a total eclipse of the heart.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
11
noseycow
You mean ‘dead’?
April 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
OMG you lot are awful.
actually there have been many reported cases where donor receipients take on characteristics of the donor…
April 8th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
She’s got her eye on a kidney donor
April 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Who’s next? Better not write to mrs Graham, formerly known as mrs Cottle…
How’s that song about the “Circle of life”?
April 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
You’ve not met Mrs Graham, have you
April 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
so he killed himself at 81? sems pointless.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I could understand it more if it was a Brain transplant, maybe it”s the effect
Mrs. Graham has on men………sorry about that.!!!!!!
April 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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yampster Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Shouldn’t someone have a word with Mrs Graham first. I can see a link here
April 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Surely it was her?
April 8th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
No link yampster she’s broken hearted. She can afford to be. There’s a spare.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Shouldn’t someone have a word with Mrs Graham first. I can see a link here
April 8th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Excellent recycling - who gets the heart next?