Man with suicide victim's heart kills himself

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Crazy ass story, a lot like the movie 21 Grams if you've ever seen

Check it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23984857/

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A man who received

a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor's widow

died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted

gunshot wound.No

foul play was suspected in 69-year-old Sonny Graham's death at his

Vidalia, Ga., home, investigators said. He was found Tuesday in a

utility building in his backyard with a single shotgun wound to the

throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of

Investigation.

Graham,

who was director of the Heritage golf tournament at Sea Pines from 1979

to 1983, was on the verge of congestive heart failure in 1995 when he

got a call that a heart was available in Charleston.

Grateful for his new heart, Graham began

writing letters to the donor's family to thank them. In January 1997,

Graham met his donor's widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston.

"I

felt like I had known her for years," Graham told The (Hilton Head)

Island Packet for a story in 2006. "I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I

just stared."

In

2001, Graham bought a home for Cottle and her four children in Vidalia.

Three years later, they were married after Graham retired from his job

as a plant manager for Hargray Communications in Hilton Head.

From their previous marriages, the couple had six children and six grandchildren scattered across South Carolina and Georgia.

Cheryl

Graham, now 39, has worked at several hospices in Vidalia. A telephone

message left Sunday at a listing for Cheryl and Sonny Graham in Vidalia

was not immediately returned.

Sonny Graham's friends said he would be remembered for his willingness to help people.

"Any

time someone had a problem, the first reaction was, 'Call Sonny

Graham,' " said Bill Carson, Graham's friend for more than 40 years.

"It didn't matter whether you had a flat tire on the side of the road

or your washing machine didn't work. He didn't even have to know you to

help you."

 
who are you to judge? he was 69 years old, not too far from death anyways. his life could have been absolutely miserable, or he could have been mentally ill.

I'd only kill myself in rare instances, but I am not gonna judge someone else for doing it.
 
i thought ppl who got donor organs never knew who's organ it was...unless it was a fam member
 
Yah agreed and anyways why would he kill himself if he had 6 kids and 6 grandkids sounds like a pretty good life to me. But I don't know him and neither do you so neither of us can talk we can just assume.
 
seriously. not to mention he was 57 at the time and she was 28. I'd be pretty pissed off if i was suicide victim #1.
 
No foul play? 2 men die the same way. The woman isn't very old. Kind of suspicious if you ask me. Maybe she didn't kill him but she probably drove him to it.
 
The real question is did she cause the two men to kill themselves or did the heart? Could it be that in receiving the donor's heart, a lot of characteristics of that donor were rooted in the heart and transfered to the new owner of the heart. That would explain, one, why he killed himself, and two, why he fell in love with the donor's wife. Creepy.
 
Dude that's weird as fuck..can depression really carry through the heart? I thought that was a more mental thing?
 
Yah that's the first thing I thought when I read the story I mean that's weird as shit if that really is part of the reason.
 
so you think that suicide is good in some situations? you're retarded bro. 69 years old he had plenty of time left and suicide is the most selfish thing anyone could do. but you can go ahead and do it. but i'll judge you for sure.
 


It shows that there's a lot more to the human body than we know. This is jsut another example that not everything is done by the brain. I remember reading an article a while back about some woman who got a liver transplant, and afterwards, she loved classical music. Before the organ transplant, however, she hardly listened to classical. There's something about organs which seem to 'store' the donor's information, in some way or another.

 
Haha, that is WEIRD. Unfortunately we just straight-up don't know enough about our own species to answer that question, but what an article haha... fucking crazy.
 
you're retarded, "bro."

what if you have terminal cancer, you stupid fuck? thats what I was getting at
 
what you're getting at? so if someone has terminal cancer you theink they should just off themselves? you're a stupid fuck. but don't worry. you could just off yourself and it will all be over
 
Uhm, dude, you're the stupid one. If I had terminal cancer and I was looking at months of hospital visits, chemo, and massive disability I'd probably off myself too. Not all incognito like he did, I'd let those close to me know, but fuck living like that...
 
yeah, its all in your head, but its caused by stress, and if the last uy was stressed, his heart most likely was too (99% chance probably if he committed suicide). anyways, so if the heart was producing stress, then it can reach your head too, by way of your heart producing stress, getting cvd, which places stress on the rest of your system, and stress can travel in the bloodstream
 
you would tell everyone that you were going to kill yourself? HAHA

you must have a pretty shitty life if you'd kill yourself that easily.
 
yes i know what terminal means

and yes, i also think that killing ones self because you're not ballsy enough to stick it out to the end is pretty distgusting. but that is just how i feel. in any situation.
 
Yeah, I'd fucking tell people. If I have terminal cancer I expect I'll be like 65+, fucking old, who's gonna stop me? You can't stop old people, they do whatever the fuck they want because they don't give a damn any more. I wouldn't peace out without telling those close to me, I might not tell them outright but I'd make a heartfelt goodbye under the cover of "going away" or something. Fuck living in a hospital, dependant on chemicals and technology to keep you alive. I'd be miserable, and wasting away valuable money that my family could use instead of watching me suffer endlessly.
 
yeah but you're contradicting yourself. if you didn't care about life, then why would you go to the hospital and spend any time there? why not just die naturally from the cancer and enjoy whatever time you DO have left? no one said you have to be dependant on chemicals and shit. i dunno if i'd even do any of that either. but i wouldn't shoot myself in the face and take away all my dignity
 
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