GR translation: smells of long illness and terminal occupation

[Mark Kohut]

I think "terminal occupation" means that people have died therein.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V154.12-17, P156.36-157.4   They are shivering and hungry. In the
> Studentenheim there’s no heat, not much light, millions of roaches. A
> smell of cabbage, old second Reich, grandmothers’ cabbage, of lard
> smoke that has found, over the years, some détente with the air that
> seeks to break it down, smells of long illness and terminal occupation
> stir off the crumbling walls. One of the walls is stained yellow with
> waste from the broken lines upstairs.
>
> What does "terminal occupation" mean here?
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