The photographer snapped the picture: a distraught woman cradling her lifeless husband under a streetlight, a Pietà of the Manila slums.
This was Robert Zuidam's "Rage d'Amours," which told of the strange, obsessive love of Queen Juana, the nominal ruler of Castile, for her unfaithful and later lifeless husband, Philip the Handsome.
A hundred pages later, at the end of her mother Ying-ying's narrative, we are back in that room, a moment earlier, listening with the mother's ears to her daughter's lifeless conversation with her husband.
On the beach, a woman flung herself over her husband's lifeless body and wailed as medics administered CPR in a failed effort to revive him.
Kathy entered the house, heading toward her bedroom where she found her husband, Tom Barlas Sr., lifeless on the floor, bleeding from multiple stab wounds.
Describing the murder scene that met emergency workers called to the secluded spot on the morning of 27 July 2008, emergency medical technician Loretta Ephraim told how she found Catherine Mullany lying lifeless on the floor and her husband in a similar position on the bed in their chalet at 6.15am.
"She dreamt that they were beating the child in the bathtub, that they were using his fists to beat her up and he walked away and she stayed, keeps going and Nixzmary became lifeless," the witness said, referring to Ms. Santiago and her husband, Cesar Rodriguez.
Mr. González's wife, who asked to be identified only by her nickname, Cuquis, said she had gone looking for her husband when she heard the shooting and found his lifeless body oozing blood in the car.
"We would scarce choose to be in the gallery, when one of the women bending over them should recognize a husband, a son, or a brother in the still, lifeless lines of bodies, that lie ready for the gaping trenches".
Charmain Speirs, 41, who was reportedly pregnant at the time, was found lifeless in the bath of a hotel room in the city of Koforidua in March 2015, two days after her husband Eric Adusah had returned to the UK, the inquest in Chelmsford heard.
A worshipful New Yorker, Ms. Planitz was in the thrall of her husband and never missed a football game, even as she succumbed to alcoholism and depression in the comparatively lifeless surroundings of Green Bay, Wis.
