Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
More than just feeling a little dead inside.
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***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR MOVEMENT***
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***MORE DEATH CONTENT & RESOURCES***
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***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
http://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.
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
http://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.
