Yes, you can die from a broken heart

There's more to the idea of a broken heart than just the mourning of a lost relationship. Severe physical or emotional stress, like the shock of discovering a spouse is cheating or wants a divorce, can cause a condition that mimics a heart attack. A 2004 study in the New England Journal of Medicine dubbed this "broken heart syndrome," also called stress cardiomyopathy.

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