Never in the history of the Philippines has a president suffered an accident during or after leaving office
Attempts to assassinate presidents and records of deaths in the presidential palace due to health problems have existed, but no one has ever actually killed a Philippine president, but their other half, less fortunate.
To date, there are three former Presidents of the Philippines who have not been accompanied by their spouses during or after their term of office: Manuel Quezon, ElPidio Kirino and Corresun Aquino.
The other half of them were brutally killed.
Elpidio Quirino
Before becoming the sixth president of the Philippines in 1948, Elpidio Quirino lost his beloved wife, and his happy family was torn apart in World War II.
In 1921, at the age of 31, ElPidio married alicia, 17, and had five children after marriage, but then the outbreak of war brought ruin to the happy family.
In 1945, when the Battle of Manila broke out, Alicia and her three children tried to flee, but they were eventually discovered and massacred by Japanese soldiers. The 54-year-old widowed ElPidio became the only father of the two remaining children: the eldest child, Thomas, and the youngest, Victoria.
ElPidio was later elected president of the Philippines, and her 16-year-old daughter Victoria became the hostess of Maracan Palace and was regarded as the youngest first lady in Philippine history. Victoria was also the first daughter of the president to marry in The Mara Maracan palace, and her father, ElPidio, never married again.
Manuel Quezon
In 1944, World War II ended.
Manuel Quezon, who was in exile in New York, died tragically during his exile. After the war, his widow Aurora returned to the Philippines with her children. After returning to the Philippines, Aurora continued to serve the Philippines through municipal work, such as the establishment of the Philippine National Red Cross.
Five years after her husband's death, Quezon Memorial Hospital was completed and Aurora was invited to cut the ribbon. Although Aurora was warned of the possibility of a guerrilla ambush in the area before departure, Aurora insisted on going and went with her two daughters.
Unfortunately, her convoy was ambushed by a group of people on the road, and machine guns were fired at Aurora's convoy, and all nine members of the convoy, including Aurora, were killed.
After her death, then-President ElPidio declared the Philippines into a nine-day period of mourning and personally attended her funeral.
Corazon Aquino Jr.
Former Philippine President Marcos has had many opponents during his presidency, led by Benigno Aquino Jr.
In 1972, after the military martial law decree was issued, Aquino was arrested. In the years that followed, his health deteriorated, and after a heart attack in 1980, his request for treatment in the United States was granted by Marcos on the condition that he never return to the Philippines.
But in order to win the people the freedom that belonged to them, Aquino made the decision to return to the Philippines. But when he first set foot on Philippine soil, he was shot in the head by an assassin at the airport and died.
His death served as a catalyst for the 1986 Popular Power Revolution in the Philippines, leading directly to the ouster of President Marcos. When the Marcos family went into exile, his widow, Corazon Aquino, was elected president of the Philippines.
After becoming president of the Philippines, she launched an investigation into her husband's assassination and convicted 16 servicemen, all of whom were sentenced to life in prison but later commuted.