Wiesel is so emotionally exhausted he can't even bring himself to cry or to say a pray for his father. The death of his father was not the only time Elie lost faith in family, his mother and sister were gone and he never though about them. "I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother." Elie knows he must only think about himself, and the memories of his family would make him too emotionally unstable to move on. .
The next way that Elie "dies" is because Elie is stripped of his former innocent self. The things Elie has seen during his stay at the concentration camp has completely scarred him and changed him from who he was before. He no long has the ability of feeling those normal human emotions that he would've felt if he never went through the turmoils of the Holocaust. "Suddenly someone threw his arms around me in a hug : Yehiel , the Sigheter rebbe' s brother . He was weeping bitterly . I thought he was crying with joy at still being alive . "Don't cry , Yehiel, " I said . "Don' t waste your tears . " "Not cry We're on the threshold of death. Soon , we shall be inside.Do you understand Inside . How could I not cry? " I watched darkness fade through the bluish skylights in the roof . I no longer was afraid . I was overcome by fatigue ." Elie is so wounded he even no longer felt any sense of fair. He was telling other people not to feel anything because he couldn't, he was stripped of all emotions he had and no he was just simply tired. Elie was very young when he lost his mother and sister and he was also young when he lost his father. When a child is that young it is highly unusual for them not to cry when losing a parent, yet this is what Elie did. This just shows how gone Elie truly was. When Elie entered the camps he was subjected to seeing things one should never be able to see in his life.