Heart attack killed woman after viewing soldier son's body

<TUCSON, Ariz. - A woman who collapsed and died hours after viewing the body of her son killed while serving in Iraq suffered a heart attack, authorities said.

Karen Unruh-Wahrer, 45, had atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, more commonly known as hardening of the arteries, which led to her Oct. 2 heart attack, said Dr. Bruce Parks, Pima County's chief medical examiner.

Unruh-Wahrer was said to be inconsolable after the death of her 25-year-old son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed Sept. 25 by enemy fire near Baghdad.

She died shortly after seeing his remains for the first time.

Her family attributed the death to a broken heart, but Parks said hardening of the arteries generally develops slowly over a long period of time and often goes unnoticed by the victim.

The resulting heart attack can be precipitated by stress, Parks said Tuesday.>


http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1124Soldiersmom-ON.html

How many people must die for the petrocon's megalomania.

It was a 'shock'. Had this not happened, she likely would've suffered symptoms in the future which could've been addressed....and she'd still be here. This is terribly sad.

hardening arteries are being detected in 22 year olds!!! It's the diet and lifestyle we are leading....much worse than when I was a kid!!

...laid at the feet of the US empire. When will it ever be enough?

"Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."

http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1391

...was it real or was it a siggie machine?

Rumsfeld...what a candy-ass pussy.

Link:
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target%20Homepage.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=93&rnd=689.2695486417001


:nuke:

...of young people, particularly in the high schools. Young high school students say the lesson they learned is that they want to serve and wouldn't mind dying for a higher cause in Iraq.

This mom's reaction is the more understandable one.

As a mother of a son, my only child, my heart goes out.