The very nature of soul mate love and passions can often be glimpsed in the love poems of the Roman poet Ovid, as in his Triumph of Love: "His slender arrows have pierced my heart/And fell Love holds it like a conquered land/Shall I yield me to him?/Or shall I strive against him, and so add fuel to this sudden flame?/Well, I will yield." Here, we feel a helpless capitulation to the flames of soul mate passions and desires, another important and strong indication of love's immortal properties.

There are countless stories, myths and legends of undying love and soulmates, but often the most intense are those who die at the same moment, or of the lover who falls immediately upon discovering a dead or dying partner. There are few stronger pieces of immortal soulmate evidence than the examples of Antony and Cleopatra, who choose the path of individual suicides rather than allow themselves to accept defeat be taken prisoner; Romeo, who ends his life with a kiss delivered to his comatose love Juliet, who follows him to the grave moments after regaining consciousness; outlaw soul mates Bonnie and Clyde, who disdain arrest and choose instead to die together in a hail of bullets.

Even Bonnie Parker seemed to know what fate awaited them. While the couple was on the run, she sent a poem to the media, which was printed across the country the next day and concluded with:

Some day they'll go down together
they'll bury them side by side.
To few it'll be grief,
to the law a relief
but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
 
Often when soul mates pass over to the other side, their bodies are buried side by side. However, this was not the case after the simultaneous deaths of Bonnie and Clyde, because Bonnie's family refused to allow it. Sometimes, even sou lmates can experience scorn and disapproval from those close to them, which makes immortality seem preferable.