Ah, no, that's the hollow bit. Everyone I know back home was hollow or near enough - that's a side effect of the Abyss drawing near. Basically, it means you're very, very dead, so when you die again, it's just another death, you know? Anywho. Eventually you die for real, meaning when you come back your body's still about but your mind isn't there, and that's when the cannibalism begins!
But I'm very much not hollow so you don't have to worry about that and I don't have to have it haunt my waking nights any longer!