Maybe it was a gas leak? Or at least something more fathomable than suttee in the 21st Century

Should a nonagenarian man be eulogised if his death entailed the ending of his young wife's life and his dog's too? Is this romantic love? Or something more unsettling?

Suttee: practice, a chiefly historical one, in which Hindu widow burns alive on deceased husband's funeral pyre either voluntarily, by coercion, or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live. Source

Popular Hindu usage lent it the additional meaning of a 'virtuous woman'. Source