His Widow

Hilton Head Island resident Sonny Graham, 69, took his own life last week, thirteen years after his failing heart was replaced with one from another suicide victim, 33-year-old man Terry Cottle. It's also the end of his marriage to Cottle's widow.

Graham's correspondence with Cheryl Cottle after the transplant began with help from an organ donation agency in 1996 and led to their falling in love and getting married in 2004. In 2001, he bought a house in Vidalia for them and her four children.

Including previous marriages from both, there are six sons and daughters and six grandkids who live in Georgia and South Carolina. Cheryl, a hospice worker, is now 39. Graham retired from Hargray Communi***ions in 2003 where he was a plant manager.

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Wasn't there a case a couple of weeks ago where a woman got a kidney or liver transplant and all of a sudden she got smarter and started reading a lot of books and stuff? Her family had commented on how the new organ had made her more intellectual!

So, it's either a case of the organ making him do what the other man did, or the widow was up to no good.

I've heard cases made for both. #1) Organs from someone else can make the new person think, feel, act differently, like the donor.

#2) If someone dies while married to a person it can be suicide/accident, but if it happens again, then an investigation should be made into both cases.

What do you think?

yes, absolutely...