During the past week, the world lost two talented and amazing people, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.
Fisher was the first to pass away on Tuesday morning when she had a heart attack while traveling to California from London. The world was in a complete shock and there were pictures of Princess Leia splattered across every social media platform. Being part of the Star Wars series allowed people to build a bond with the character she played and even allowed people to love her as an actress. Even though, there were multiple speculations of Fisher suffering from bipolar disorder and combating substance abuse in the past, it was still unbelievable news to handle for her family and the public.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the only bad news that came in the next 24 hours. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds passed away the next day because she had suffered a stroke. Reynolds was very popularly known for her role in Halloweentown, which plays on Disney Channel every year. Many sources claim that the death of her daughter was very rough on her, for very understandable reasons, and the stress caused the stroke to happen.
As hard as these deaths are for the family of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, we should really take a moment and see the strength heartache and stress has on the human body. The bond between any mother and daughter is usually second to none and Debbie Reynolds suffered major stress when she found out that her daughter had passed away. Doctors will find a million and one medical stipulations as to why Reynolds had passed away, but shouldn’t heartache be one of them? Just the thought of losing my mother brings me to the darkest places in my mind that I hope I will not have to deal with for a very long time, but Reynolds had to think of burying her own daughter within the next couple of days. Heartache was the reason for this woman’s death.
As I was reading articles about these two tragic and quick deaths, I couldn’t help think how serious heartache really is. I remember sitting in my Psychology class when my professor told us how serious a death of a loved one truly is, or even the pain of a break-up. He would go into detail on how that pain is indescribable and how no one should ever undermine how the other person truly feels. Debbie Reynolds was a victim of this heartache and it felt as if people really did understand how serious it was when the phrase “They’re together now” was sprawled everywhere on social media or articles. Not only that, but Debbie Reynolds' last words were "I want to be with Carrie." In that moment, her true pain was the thought of spending the rest of her life without her daughter, not the stroke that she had sufferred from.
Rest in the sweetest peace to two talented women, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.
We all hope you are happily together now.
