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Such studies and similar observations upon the very young, the very old, the very ill, and the regressed, indicate that human care is literally vital, and that if it is deficient or absent we perish, the more quickly and surely the more vulnerable we are; and that death, in such contexts, is first and foremost an existential death, a dying-away of the will-to-live – and that this paves the way for physical death.
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This subject – ‘dying of grief’ – is discussed with great penetration in Chapter 2 (‘The Broken Heart’) of C. M. Parkes’s book Bereavement.
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Spitz has provided unforgettable descriptions of the effects of human deprivation on orphaned children. These orphans (in an orphanage in Mexico) were given excellent mechanical and ‘hygienic’ care, but virtually no human attention, warmth, or care. Almost all of them had died by the age of three.
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