Man Who Received Heart Transplant from Suicide Victim Takes His Own Life 12 Years Later

Sonny Graham was in dire need of a heart transplant twelve years ago. On the verge of congestive heart failure the then 59-year-old Georgia man received the news that there was a heart in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1995 Terry Cottle, a 33-year-old father of four had taken his life with a shotgun blast to his throat and now his heart would become Graham’s.

After receiving the heart Graham felt so indebted to Cottle’s family that he wrote to his widow. By 1997 Graham met Cheryl Cottle, the 28-year-old widow of Terry, and by 2004 the two were married.

The couple, along with their children from previous marriages, moved into a home in Vidalia, Ga. On Tuesday it all came to an end as Graham followed the same path as the man whose heart has been beating in his chest fro the past twelve years. With a single shot to the throat Sonny Graham was found dead inside a utility building in his back yard.

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