Before Tina Turner's death, she already said she did not mind dying already amid her multiple health issues. However, she fought for her life and kept going because of one person.
Turner left the world for good on May 24 as she passed away at the age of 83 following her battle with several health conditions. The singer reportedly expected her death long before her demise, but she found hope and kept fighting until the end.
Tina Turner Did Not Fear Death
In 2013, the singer married her longtime partner, Erwin Bach, who gave everything to her after she suffered during her marriage to Ike Turner. But things took a turn for worse when she started suffering health issues after their union.
In the years after her wedding, Turner suffered a stroke before getting diagnosed with intestinal cancer. She soon found herself suffering due after her kidneys failed.
In her interview with Oprah Winfrey in an episode of "Super Soul," the "Better Be Good To Me" singer recalled asking her doctor what it meant to have two kidneys not working anymore.
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Her doctor reportedly told her she would die, but Turner calmly said it was truly time for it to happen. When the physician told her to be on a machine to take out the impurities from her system, the singer refused to do so and firmly expressed her disapproval of being on a machine.
While she already embraced her mortality, Turner's mind changed when her husband volunteered to become an organ donor and save her. She initially refused to receive it, but Bach repeatedly convinced her as he told her he did not want another partner.
"They took Erwin away for tests and he came back 100% worth giving me the kidney," she noted. "I thought, 'Well, if I have someone willing to give me an organ from their body, I should stay on a machine as long as I need to.'"
From there, Turner spent nine months undergoing kidney dialysis following the transplant surgery and lived for more years until her recent passing.
How Erwin Bach Helped Tina Turner Live
Aside from saving her physically by donating his liver, Bach also became the strongest support for Turner emotionally and mentally.
The music executive helped the late crooner to cope with grief after she lost her son, Craig, who was found dead at his Studio City home in California from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her other son, Ronnie, also passed away in 2022 due to complications from colon cancer.
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