My mother was so terrified of living without her cancer-stricken husband she died from a broken heart - passing away three days before him Sharon Dann, 54, from Warwickshire, passed away from broken heart syndrome Read More: Broken heart syndrome is JUST as deadly as a heart attack By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline Published: 12:50, 13 June 2024 | Updated: 13:14, 13 June 2024 e-mail View comments A mother terrified of living without her cancer-stricken husband died from a broken heart when he went into end-of-life care- passing away three days before him. Sharon Dann, 54, and Wayne Dann, 57, from Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, had been married for almost ten years and referred to each other as 'soulmates'. Wayne, who had previously undergone radiotherapy for cancer in his groin, discovered it had spread to his lungs meaning he had to undergo surgery in October last year.
Despite doctors' best efforts, the family found out the 57-year-old had a sarcoma in February and would need chemotherapy. But in March, the landscape gardener was blue-lighted to hospital when his condition deteriorated, with his 54-year-old carer wife refusing to leave his bedside for six days. Sharon Dann, 54, (right) and Wayne Dann, 57, (left) from Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, passed away only a few days apart after Sharon died from a broken heart three days before her cancer-stricken husband Sharon's daughter, Ellie Steward said her mother struggled to eat or sleep as she was so terrified of liv.