Most of the patients here have been diagnosed with garden-variety neurological disorders: schizophrenia, dementia, psychosis, severe depression, or bipolarism. But the ones I am searching for are different. They suffer from an affliction even more puzzling: They believe that they are dead.
It’s a rare disorder called Cotard’s syndrome, which few understand. For patients who have it, their hearts beat and lungs pump, yet they deny their existence or functionality of their bodies, organs or brains. They think their self is detached.
Via Hacker News [1], “Living With Being Dead — Matter — Medium [2]”
I would like to congratulate Sean Hoade [3] on his Zombi epalooza interview [4], and what better way to do that than to link to an article about people who think they're dead. Does that mean they think they're zombies? Or ghosts? Or just dead and their body has yet to notice?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454005
[2] https://medium.com/matter/living-with-being-dead-
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdp6bxyKLZU&feature=youtu.be