The (Real) Delusion That You're a Corpse
by Ask A Mortician
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More than just feeling a little dead inside. Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible!http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeathLearn more about the Mortals' Market: https://www.mortalsmarket.com/Learn more about Self Help Graphics & Art: https://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR NON-PROFIT***Small monthly donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegooddeathA one time donation on PayPal: https://bit.ly/2HmgkYs***MY LATEST BOOK Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?***Purchase it: http://caitlindoughty.com/books/will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballsMy other two books!: http://caitlindoughty.com/books***LEARN MORE ABOUT CLARITY FUNERALS***http://www.clarityfunerals.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ClarityFuneralsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarityfunerals/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ClarityFunerals/***MORE CONTENT!***Find our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2yK6c6GFind our podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEMFind our podcast on Google Play: https://bit.ly/2AdEvojThe Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/***WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME***Website: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.comTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/thegooddeathFacebook: http://ow.ly/Zz8PWInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath***CREDITS***Mortician: Caitlin DoughtyProducer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair)Additional Research: Remy ServisThis video was greatly informed by the essays of Esmé Weijun Wang, her book The Collected Schizophrenias, as well as interviews with Ms. Wang. Thank you Ms. Wang, for sharing your experiences with such candor and humor. https://esmewang.com/***MUSIC***Operating System (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/***SELECTED SOURCES***Extending the World: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wanghttps://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/4689/extending_the_world_an_interview_with_esm_weijun_wangThis rare illness makes people think they’re deadhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/zombie-disease-makes-people-think-they-have-died/2015/10/30/ca8ab52c-532f-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.htmlMindscapes: First interview with a dead manhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23583-mindscapes-first-interview-with-a-dead-man/No Seriously, I'm Deadhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/no-seriously-im-dead/“When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard's Syndrome.” Machado, Leonardo. Case reports in medicine vol. 2016 (2016)Etudes sur les Maladies Cérébrales et Men-talesParis, Baillière, 1891. 10 Cotard J, Camuset M, Séglas J: Du délire des Néga-tions aux Idées D’énormité. Paris, L’Harmattan, 1997.Jules Cotardhttp://www.histoiredelafolie.fr/psychiatrie-neurologie/du-delire-hypochondriaque-dans-une-forme-grave-de-la-melancolie-anxieuse-delire-de-negation-par-jules-cotard-1880“Charles Bonnet's Description of Cotard's Delusion and Reduplicative Paramnesia in an Elderly Patient (1788).” Förstl, Hans, and Barbara Beats.British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 160, no. 3, 1992.