Broken Hearts Kill People

It is true you can die from a broken heart.
The facts:

"It is actually possible to die of ONLY a broken heart. It stems from the flight or fight responce. It affects mainly women (this is not understood why) and usually people with already damaged hearts (of 20 people 19 were female and over 70, one was 27 though). Anyhow, when shocked, the heart creats adrenalyn and other bio-chemicals. combined with an already weak heart from Heart disease, this can shock the heart into a pseudo-heart attack. It doesn't stop the heart, but renders it completely useless." (answerbag.com)

I wonder how broken your heart has to be to be "rendered useless"?

The heart is the most resilent muscle we have and also the most stupid. It rarely ever listens to the brain and it seems to never give up trying. Your heart can have scars and cuts all over it and be missing pieces that you allowed people to take with them when they left (like little souveniers), but it keeps beating......and hoping...... and waiting.
Broken hearts are tricky. When you have one you believe that no one else in the world could possibly have ever felt this bad or had this pain inside them. You can physically feel your heart hurting. But you have to accept the fact that this isn't the worst heartache you will endure or the last. Take it from the jaded girl- your heart is capable of breaking many times and each one feels worse than the last. The first cut is not always the deepest.


I found this online tonight. Its so weird....but who knows, maybe it works?
The Broken Heart Calculator:
For Long relationships (1 YEAR OR MORE)
Follow these simple instructions to figure out how long your heart will ache:
1. Estimate how happy you were (day to day) on a scale of 1 to 3
2. Estimate how physically attractive you found your mate on a scale of 1 to 3
3. Add up A and B - and then divide this number by 2-- this will give you a number in years
4. Subtract one year from the total
Example: I was happily dating HIM for 2.5 years (I ranked my happiness a 2.5 out of 3. I found him very attractive, a 3 out of 3. He leaves. My heart will officially take 1.75 years to recover. I've already used up that 0.75, so I've got 1 more year to go...yea :(

**Hope this helps you Liz, your heart has already survived ALOT more than this. It will keep on beating and breaking but you will learn something from each bruise. And those cuts will heal into scars that will eventually be covered with band aids given to you by your next great love.