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Can anyone tell me what this means, or reword?

this isnt a homework question, i was just reading about how vermeer died. and his wife said...

"as a result to the great burden of his children, having no means of his own, he had lapsed into such decay and decadence, which he had so taken to heart that, as if he had fallen into a frenzy, in a day or day and a half had gone from being healthy to being dead.

does that mean he died because of the burden of his children.?

PLEASE HELP! 10 points!?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    yes he took it so much so to heart that he was overwhelmed and went into a frenzy and even though he had been healthy in the days before or so he appeared he lost all that from the stress and the burden of himself on his kids that it sounds like he took all these in himself and died.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • wesley
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    it sounds like he gave so much he had nothing left to give with no appreciation from his children his life became riddled with emotional pain and he parished

  • Angela
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    What I translate it to mean is that he had children but had no way to support them, which made him depressed and overwhelmed, which caused him to die.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It sounds to me like, "having no means of his own", he

    was strapped and could not support his children, which

    led to his depression, letting himself go, and dying.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    he died from so much stress.

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