Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death!
Bone Pointing …
A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed.
The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out by a Kurdaitcha, or a ritual executioner. The name Kurdaitcha comes from the slippers that the Kurdaitcha wear. These slippers, made of cockatoo or emu feathers and human hair are completely silent when the user walks in them.
The Kurdaitcha will use this silence to quickly hunt down the person to be killed if the person has fled. Once the person is caught the Kurdaitcha will go down onto one knee and point the kundela, or killing bone (which will have been charged with a psychic energy in a previous ritual), at the condemned.
At this point the victim is said to be completely frozen in fear. The Kurdaitcha will then chant a curse. Afterwards the Kurdaitcha and fellow hunters will return to the village and the kundela will be burned.
After the ritual the guilty person may live for several days or weeks. However, the person believes so strongly in the curse that they will most definitely die. Although the kundela does not physically harm the person it is said to pierce the victim with a spear of thought, which does just as much damage as an actual spear.
Victims tend to become listless and apathetic, refusing to eat or drink. The syndrome of dying despite not being physically harmed is called the “bone-pointing syndrome”. It simply means the victim dies because of the belief that they are going to die
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