Cotard’s Syndrome: Not Pretending That We’re Dead:
Playing dead game – A craze called the „playing dead game” has swept this nation where people of all ages stage elaborate death scenes everyplace.
Believing That We’re Dead
Cotard’s Syndrome is the delusional belief that one is dead or missing internal organs or other body parts (Debruyne et al., 2009). Those who suffer from this „delusion of negation” deny their own existence. The eponymous French neurologist Jules Cotard called it le délire de négation („negation delirium”).
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