They are indifferent to their own boredom and unhappiness and are doomed to continue. In his disconnected state, Eliot's modern man does not take responsibility for his own spiritual growth because he is indifferent to its absence. Part IV, the shortest part of the poem, addresses the death of Phlebas the Phoenician. The emptiness of life carries through into death. In death, the material wealth so important to Phlebas in life means nothing.
Material wealth offers no solace or comfort as man faces death.
Part V begins with an allusion to the crucifixion of Christ. However, there is no resurrection of Christ, he is dead and with him is man's spirituality. Without spirituality man experiences a living death in a barren world. He describes a barren world that provides no comfort or nourishment for man. There is no water, or even the solitude of silence.