One heart, one widow connect suicides of 2 men

Is the key to their deaths the woman with whom they shared their heart?

On an overcast spring morning in southeast Georgia, Sonny Graham drank some coffee and headed out the door for another day in the family landscaping business and to take his 9-year-old stepson to the dentist. But Graham made a detour to the backyard shed that he’d built.

There, the 69-year-old picked up the 12-gauge Remington shotgun he’d taken on so many quail- and dove-hunting trips, pointed the muzzle at the right side of his throat and pulled the trigger.

It was April Fool’s Day, almost exactly 13 years since another man’s suicide gave Graham a second chance at life.

That man was Terry Cottle. When he ended his life, Graham got his heart.

But it was not just an organ that connected Graham and the 33-year-old donor. Nearly a decade after the transplant, Graham married Cottle’s young widow.

And now Graham had made her a widow again.

As word of his death spread, the Internet lit up with the story of the heart that had been twice silenced by suicide �?and the woman who’d lost the same heart twice. Reporters and bloggers waxed on about “cellular memory�?and whether the organ somehow held a “suicide gene.�?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26413873/

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{ This is a very bizarre case. They say true life or reality is stranger than fiction and this seems to be a good example. Why did this man who received the heart transplant start to develop the tastes in food of the heart donor? What if anything did the wife have to do with the suicide of both these men? Why would the man who got the heart fall in love with the wife of the donor? It sure makes for interesting reading. What do you think about all this?}