She spoke of the moment he died, saying: “We were all with him. I was holding his face, because it was all I could really hold that was still living. After the beeps on the machine got slower, and then did the continual beep, to tell us his heart had stopped, I just couldn’t let go of his face, because I knew when I did it would go cold, and then it wouldn’t be warm again. I held him for what seemed like ages. But then I had to let go. At that point our lives fell apart completely.”