US man marries partner hours before her death and aims to adopt her son

It was hard not to fall in love with both,' Kyle Adcock says of Amy Drouillard, who he wed in the hospital before she died of cancer

A US man married his cancer-stricken beloved in her final hours last week and is now working on adopting her son, telling a local television station documenting the family's heartbreaking story that it was hard not to fall in love with both of them" after meeting them.

Kyle Adcock and Amy Drouillard of Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, had arranged to marry each other on Saturday - her dress, the venue and the vendors for the nuptials had all been picked out, as the Detroit outlet WJBK reported.