There has been manifest grief in Spain since he died on Saturday, yet he often said that he felt far more appreciated in Britain than he did in his own country, and could be downright chippy at times about what he felt was, among his compatriots, insufficient respect for his achievements.
This then contributes to the sense of loss and harm from without, manifesting as grief, sadness and worry, rather than self-deficit and reproach.
It's a gut-wrenching anatomy of grief manifested with great grace and wit.
In his new memoir, The Theater of War, he writes: "I took comfort in knowing that I wasn't the first person who had experienced compassion fatigue, or who had hesitated to act decisively in the presence of extreme suffering, or who felt ambivalent about helping someone to die, or whose grief manifested itself in a withdrawal from the world".
It's a visceral story of racial and social injustice, sensitively capturing the emotions of Leon, whose anger and grief are manifested in nightmares of fighting monsters.
"I've always been fascinated by how grief manifests itself and why it's not something we have to be ashamed of.
To name them and dress them and still they die and still the grief manifests itself… Some people say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, but I don't think so.
Chase, either because of some kind of personal deficiency, some defensive hardening of the heart, or because things aren't really what they seem -- you just have to wonder which it is -- is incapable of manifesting the requisite grief.
However, for Wittgenstein a given type of mental state need not be manifested by any particular outward behaviour: one person may express his grief by wailing, another by somber silence.
This includes being able to consciously tell yourself that the grief is manifesting itself in various ways and you need to diagnose and treat those symptoms.
As such, we will also have experienced how illness, dying and grief now manifest online – from public posts updating friends with their status, to specialist groups for sufferers to discuss their condition together.
