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Description: More than just feeling a little dead inside. Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible! patreon.com/thegooddeath Learn more about the Mortals' Market: mortalsmarket.com Learn more about Self Help Graphics & Art: selfhelpgraphics.com ***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR MOVEMENT*** Join our community of deathlings and support Ask a Mortician: patreon.com/thegooddeath Support the education and advocacy efforts of The Order of the Good Death: bit.ly/3iaz9jN Shop our advocacy wear: the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com ***MORE DEATH CONTENT & RESOURCES*** Books: caitlindoughty.com/books MORTAL course: mortalcourse.com Our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Google Play: bit.ly/2AdEvoj The Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: orderofthegooddeath.com ***SOCIALS*** Order Instagram: instagram.com/ordergooddeath Caitlin Instagram: instagram.com/thegooddeath Order Twitter: twitter.com/OrderGoodDeath ***CREDITS*** Mortician: Caitlin Doughty Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair) Additional Research: Remy Servis This 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. esmewang.com ***MUSIC*** Operating System (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: twinmusicom.org ***SELECTED SOURCES*** "Extending the World: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang" awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/4689/extending_the_world_an_interview_with_esm_weijun_wang "This rare illness makes people think they’re dead" washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/zombie-disease-makes-people-think-they-have-died/2015/10/30/ca8ab52c-532f-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html "Mindscapes: First interview with a dead man" newscientist.com/article/dn23583-mindscapes-first-interview-with-a-dead-man "No Seriously, I'm Dead" 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-tales" Paris, Baillière, 1891. 10 Cotard J, Camuset M, Séglas J: Du délire des Néga-tions aux Idées D’énormité. Paris, L’Harmattan, 1997. Jules Cotard 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.