Originally posted by: GeorgeLucasIsANarcissist
When old people "lose the will to live" it's really just a combination of old age and probably a tendency to not take care of themselves like they once did. When you're really old, the likelihood of dying soon is pretty good anyway. Being wracked with depression only compounds the problem because you're not likely to do things that are going to keep you vibrant and healthy. So really you can still break it down to a physical reasoning for death.
When old people "lose the will to live" it's really just a combination of old age and probably a tendency to not take care of themselves like they once did. When you're really old, the likelihood of dying soon is pretty good anyway. Being wracked with depression only compounds the problem because you're not likely to do things that are going to keep you vibrant and healthy. So really you can still break it down to a physical reasoning for death.
That is true. A very old person living in a retirement home, who has no family to visit because they are incapable of walking, sitting around alone all the time, I would expect that they would not have much of a will to live. A relatively young woman who just choked by her husband for a few seconds (representing the galactic equivalent of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston going at it) and then giving birth to new life, and then "not having the will to live" is horses#$@.
"Oh Annie, you're breaking my heart!"