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After 70 years full of love: married couple dies hand in hand

Her great love lasted until death. On the sixth of January, a nurse on her control visit to the nursing home in Australia observed that the Platellists behaved abnormally. Norma breathed strangely, Francis Ernest was restless. Because she was worried, the nurse returned to the Platell couple ten minutes later.In that short time the two had died hand in hand.

Not even the doctor could tell who had died first. The time of death is the same on the death certificate.

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After a 70-year romance, they died hand-in-hand within minutes of each other.
Extraordinary story of her parents' remarkable love affair, beautifully told by Amanda Platell. //t.co/69Pc2kyQT4 pic.twitter.com/ciODu6lBgq

? Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 26, 2019

The beds were pushed together so that the couple could hold hands

As Amanda Platell, the daughter of the two, writes in affectionate remembrance at "Daily Mail", the death of the couple is not only a miracle because of the short time gap. Already three years ago, her mother Norma fell ill with Alzheimer's. At that time the doctors suspected that she would not even live until Christmas.

Francis Ernest Platell tried to keep his wife at home as long as possible, but her illness was getting worse and worse. Finally she could not speak anymore. Your last words should be "my husbandAfter a few strokes and accidents, the two had to move to the nursing home. So that they could hold hands there, their beds were pushed together.

Finally, Francis Ernest Platell retired when showering a hip break, he was bedridden. After that, Norma, who was still mobile despite her Alzheimer's disease, never got up. But with all health problems? her great love remained with them until their mutual departure from this life.

Daughter Amanda is very grateful for the way her parents were allowed to go: "I think God has given him his helping hand by giving them the best possible parting from this life."