Yes I can't imagine saying that either.
A friend of mine went off to pick her daughter up from the airport.She told her husband she would call on the way home, which she did.He didn't answer.
She found him on the floor, dead.
What tore at her heart was that she couldn't know if he had suffered...or had she been there, would he have survived?
Never, ever easy. And what is worse than finding your husband dead???