Well there are the cases where two people have been together for 50 or 60 years and one dies. Very shortly thereafter the other spouse dies. Presumably because they just lost the will to live.
I am reading "Mans Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankyl. He describes how they could tell when one of the prisoners in the concentration camp had lost the will to live. They would say oh Frank is next and sure enough in the next couple of days Frank would be dead.
I wrote a philosophical post about it this morning but it seems no one saw it or didn't think much of it.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...g-meaning.html
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