Ida, 93 years old, was despondent over the recent death of her husband, Oscar, so she decided to just kill herself and join him in death.

Thinking it would be best to get it over with quickly, she took out Oscar's old army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart since it already was broken.

Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to learn her heart's exact location.

"Since you're a woman," the doctor said, "your heart is just below your left breast. Why do you ask?" Ida hung-up without answering.

Later that night, Ida was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee.