Sarah Graves

I've decided on my character for the Sutter's Fort Living History thing.
I settled on Sarah Graves, age 22, married to Jay Fosdick.

Here's an excerpt from The Donner Party by Daniel Lewis, Part IV: Eating of the Dead

During early January, the Forlorn Hope had made good progress, but they were far away from civilization, and food was running low again. Jay Fosdick grew terribly ill, and could no longer keep up with the others. Understandably, he was left behind, and his wife Sarah Graves-Fosdick stayed with him. After about a day-or-two, the Forlorn Hope concluded that the Fosdicks were dead, and William Foster and one other person turned back, to find the corpses to use for food.

Surprisingly, Sarah Fosdick was still alive, but barely. Jay had died not long ago, and Sarah had hopelessly abandoned her hope of escaping the mountains and had remained with the body of her husband. Before Sarah's eyes her husband was cut up, and after the packs were filled with dried meat, Foster and Mrs. Fosdick went back to the others, who had made a camp, waiting for Foster's return.

It seems tragically fitting for me. I'd be stupid enough to wait around to die with the corpse of my man instead of eating him. What the hell is my problem?