Elderly man sings a love song to 93-year-old dying wife

If you ever doubted true love, a heartbreaking video of an elderly man singing to his dying wife may just restore your faith.

Howard and Laura Virginia have been married for 73 years and their love has never faded.

Their granddaughter, Erin Solari, shared this tearjerker moment on Facebook and YouTube of her 92-year-old grandfather serenading his dying wife at hospice facility with a love song.

The 1940s classic song ‘You’ll Never Know’ by Rosemary Clooney and Harry James is the couple’s favourite, which they’ve shared many times throughout their lives together.

When Howard was deployed for WWII, the song comforted Laura while her husband was away fighting. During their 50^th wedding anniversary, when the couple renewed their marriage vows, they performed the song to their family.

Now at the end of their time together, their song is shared once more.

“Love you…always have,” Laura says to her husband in the video before telling him to behave when she’s gone.

As their melody starts to play in the background, Laura “is now too weak to sing” but starts to say the words to Howard. He then takes over and sings the rest to his 93-year-old wife while caressing her face.

“Isn’t he sweet?” Laura says to her granddaughter, who is filming the moment. “He likes me!”

They continue to gaze in each other’s eyes until the song ends despite Laura being blind.

“She has macular degeneration, so she cannot she much of anything but shadows and light,” Solari writes in the video description.

Solari also reveals that just moments before she began filming, Howard who cannot stand on his own and needs a wheelchair, got up to his feet to stand by his wife’s bedside when he heard that she wanted to hold him.

The most heartwarming news is that after the video went viral, it “lifted everyone’s spirits” including Laura’s, who had originally a week to live. She got better and was allowed to return to her home to live out her remaining days.

She is currently still alive and “resting peacefully at home.”