Stronger Than Death is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Bess Meredyth, and featuring Lon Chaney and Arthur Shirley.
The film is notable for featuring two expatriate Australian actors together in the cast, Louise Lovely and Arthur Shirley.
June learns that Rupert Spaulding used to love her mother when she was a young girl, but he never proposed and so he lost her to another man.
While under anesthesia, June's spirit meets the ghost of her dead husband, who tells her that he has witnessed her suffering and wishes to release her from her promise.
She orders the lawyer (Lon Chaney) to produce her dead husband's documents, and there on the top of his personal papers are the ashes of what once was her written agreement, burned to a cinder.