A woman who married the love of her life was left devastated after he tragically died just 21 days after their honeymoon.
Samantha Knott, 48, and Graham Knott, 44, from Blackpool, got hitched and jetted off on an extravagant trip to Egypt to celebrate, reports the Daily Mirror.
Sadly, just days after coming home, Samantha found Graham unresponsive in bed and was alarmed when he started "making funny noises."
She dialled 999 and Graham was rushed to Blackburn Hospital, and later to Preston Hosptial, where doctors found he had suffered a haemorrhage and he was declared brain dead.
Distraught Samantha has since found comfort in her organ donor husband's death managing to save three other lives.
Samantha, a cleaner from Blackpool, said: "It all happened so fast - one moment we're celebrating our new life together, and the next, I was saying goodbye.
"I wish we had more time together, but now I cherish every memory."
In February 2016, the couple met Graham on dating app, Flirty Fire, and after nine months of texting the pair arranged to go for a chippy along the Preston Docks.
After that, the loved-up duo met every weekend for company and socialising.
Samantha said: "He was incredibly charming and very witty. I was annoyed that we waited so long to meet.
"He complimented my smile and made me feel beautiful."
One year after they met Samantha had a hysterectomy at Blackpool Hospital after suffering from ''agonising'' endometriosis for 27 years.
Graham nursed his beloved girlfriend back to health for three months and to aid her recovery he even surprised her with a holiday to Kufu in Greece.
When they returned in September 2017, Samantha left Preston and moved to Blackburn to be with Graham and one year later, in September 2018, he proposed during a trip to Turkey.
Samantha was also diagnosed with sepsis after a gallstone caused a major infection in the bladder in October of 2018.
Samantha said: "I felt awful but his proposal made me so happy. I knew I wanted to spend my life with him.''
The pair eventually married at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, with 60 guests, and they headed to Egypt eight months later in December 2019.
On their romantic honeymoon they walked, relaxed and celebrated their marriage.
She added: "The honeymoon was very romantic. We spent quality time together."
Samantha went out to Preston for a friend's birthday two weeks after their honeymoon.
However, when she returned home at one o'clock in the morning, she got into bed but noticed Graham was making ''funny'' noises as he lay beside her.
The alarmed mum-of-two turned and noticed he looked transfixed and was completely unresponsive.
Samantha said: "I thought he was joking with me. We always played pranks on each other - I never thought he was gone."
She phoned 999 immediately and performed CPR as instructed before an ambulance arrived to take them both to hospital.
Samantha said: "I just laid in this bed with him. I never wanted to let go.
"Everything was happening so fast, I was in complete shock.
''I didn't think for one second I'd be a wife for less than a month, it was just so surreal.
''Our time was short, but I loved him for a lifetime. I wished we had longer to grow old.
"I always thought I'd be the one to go first. It all came out of nowhere."
Graham, a registered organ donor, was taken to the theatre for donation surgery after people said their farewells.
One of Graham's kidneys was donated to a 60-year-old man, a woman in her fifties received the other, and another man received a life-saving liver transplant.
They held Grahamas cremation at Blackpool Crematorium on St Patricks Day, April 2020,
Samantha added: "I miss his smile.
"Whenever you needed help he would be there.
"Friends of friends respected him.
"Now he's continuing to help people with every part of him.
"I'm glad parts of him are helping others like helped me."
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