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From: (Gary Holtzman)
Subject: Re: Royal Family of Europe
Date: 01 Nov 2001 03:45:47 GMT
References: <007101c15ee0$94789420$d3703bcb@leo>, <3bdaadd4.8668111@ca.news.verio.net>, <20011027.224448.314@yktvmv.WATSON.IBM.COM>


wrote:
> In article <>,
> on Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:57:58 GMT,
> (Sam Sloan) writes:
> >
> >Just wondering: How does one die of grief when he is only 30 years
> >old?
>
> Perhaps he killed himself.

Yes, I sometimes wonder whether this "died of grief" diagnosis which appears in
medieval and early modern chronicles is a euphemism (or, perhaps, an insightful
description) for suicide. Other times I wonder whether the medievals simply
recognized a very real cause of death that modern medicine does not.

--
Gary Holtzman

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