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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is it true that if someone you love very much dies, you can also die of a "broken heart" and if so explain it.
gpt
Your body has a lot of hormones. When you experience a lot of stress that feeling you get is due to sudden creation of many hormones. When you are old and your heart is weak this jolt of hormones can damage your heart. And if you are fragile enough you can die. It is common to lose elderly married couples in pairs for this reason.