A man and a woman who were married for 72 years died within an hour of each other, Italian media report.
Attilio Piubello, 94, and Amalia Antonini, 93 lived in Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet.
He died in hospital at 4.50am, while she died in their home soon afterwards, their son Stefano told Italian media.
"They were madly in love," he said. "I think, when he died, he went next to her bed and took her away with him."
"The last good thing they did together was die together," he said.