# The death of exes and former lovers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-exes-and-former-lovers/958861>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-exes-and-former-lovers/958861 "2022-02-03T17:29:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-exes-and-former-lovers/958861/61 "2022-02-25T16:38:10Z")

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…are you sure about those numbers ?

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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-exes-and-former-lovers/958861/62 "2022-02-25T16:43:06Z")

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I didn’t actually do the math, lets see? She was 26 when we worked together in the late 1970’s. I heard about her death about 10 or 15 years ago. She would have died in the 1990’s. It would have been 30 years approx.

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**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-exes-and-former-lovers/958861/63 "2022-02-26T21:09:42Z")

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My only ex-GF is alive AFAICT (she’s 38), but if she wasn’t, I don’t think I’d care. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.

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