Abstract
Glascock and subsequent workers deserve much more information to help them distinguish between Yolngu persons who are socially intact, and those whose deaths may be hastened and who are thus defined as decrepit. In practice, most of those whose deaths are hastened are suffering from a terminal illness that would carry them off in a matter of months rather than years. The distinction between the intact and the decrepit is not centrally relevant to my article, which is about voodoo death in its Australian guise, and so it was not discussed. Voodoo death essentially involves the rejection of a victim of sorcery or a person who has breached taboo, people whom Glascock considers as falling into the category of decrepit. I hoped to demonstrate that the proximate cause of their deaths is the withholding of fluids. The reason that deaths of the old or infirm were mentioned at all in the article was that there
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