BAFFLING! Young Newlyweds Die Within 48 Hours of One Another

Three years ago, Neil Carruthers married Tina Nedelcu; despite the horrible realization that soon after wedding bells and cheer, there very well might be organ chords signifying a funeral and despair.  Tina had already been treated for brain cancer and successfully learned how to talk and walk again.

Not everyone would get married during a time of adversity, such as a serious illness, but Neil was determined on love, no matter what.  He explained to his mother, Rosanne, “‘Mom, you don’t marry someone for their pedigree and you don’t marry them for their health history,’” she recalled.  “He told me, ‘Mom, whatever time we have, I want to spend with her.’”

That time turned out to be extremely short, as Tina’s cancer returned just 9 months later in 2010.  Neil and Tina moved in with Neil’s parents in Stoneham, M.A., and he quit his job in order to be there for Tina around the clock.  When Tina lost her ability to speak, Neil remained loyal at her bedside.  He read her scriptures from the bible.

“I know he was helping to prepare her,” Rosanne said, “but for me as a mother, as a Christian, it was as if she was preparing him as well.”

Tragically on Aug. 11, Neil walked out of Tina’s room and collapsed suddenly thereafter.  His mother Rosanne, who is a nurse at Winchester Hospital, performed CPR.  Two hours of medical attention could not revive Neil.  It eventually came out that a few days before his death; Neil had received a physical, where his doctor saw nothing to be alarmed about.

Sadly, Rosanne had to break the news to her daughter-in-law Tina that something terrible had happened to their beloved Neil, “and I know she understood.  When I came home, I went in and I held her hand and I told her, ‘Tina, he didn’t make it, he’s going to have to be there waiting for you,’ and tears ran right down her cheeks.”

Tina died in hospice care, forty-six hours later.  The couple died young as she was 29, and he was 34.  A joint funeral will be held for the newly-weds in Stoneham on Saturday.

Source: All Christian News