After a Dementors Kiss - Now what? lots of questions

[storm stanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 3577

Hey everyone
1. My apologies if this has been discussed before - I don't recall reading
it on past posts.

2. I've been thinking  about what would happen to a person after they had
(suffered?/been given?) a kiss from a dementor.

I understand the experience of living with the dementors in prison is based
on clinical depression - and having been there, done that I can certainly
see how it would be a long slow painful death.

But what about the ppl who lose their soul at once? What happens to them? We
are told that it is "worse than death" but what does that mean? What does it
mean to loose one's soul - ones connected-ness to other beings? will to
live? one's memory? other things.

Do the individuals (e.g. Barty Crouch Jnr) still live, breath, walk around?
Do they have any memory of how they were before? (without that it wouldn't
seem like much suffering except for the ppl who love them) Do they have a
concept of how much they have lost? (cf. ppl who have acquired brain injury
can sometimes be well aware of the things they can no longer feel/do) If
there is no joy is there also no pain? Where do these ppl live - in the
community (as an example to others?)? In St Mungo's Hospital? What kind of
things can they do? Do they have a normal life span (unlike ppl living
around dementors)? Do they become dementors?

And what happens to the dementor when they feed in such a way? is it
*another* meal? does it last longer? What happens to a dementor if they
don't eat? how do you kill/neutralise (nice euphemism!) a dementor or can a
silvery penny only chase them away?

I don't think there is a lot of information in the cannon so I'd love to
hear other ppl's ideas about what these things/knowledge of other
traditions.

storm