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20-11-2019, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by keezoy ->
No comment to offer on that one above. But there is a psychiatric condition where people honestly believe they are dead. It is called Cotard's Delusion.
I often awake thinking myself how very lucky I am that I did not wake up dead. That follows a heart attack some years' back but I've never heard of that condition.

How horrible to have to have a condition like that!

I do know of something similar to the OP though, not quite the same but equally distressing. A friend of mine, whose husband had died, and after her notifying utility companies about this, received a letter of notification addressed to "Mr. & Mrs. xxxxxxx" and going on to say how sorry the company was to hear that news. Not exactly very sympathetic though was it!
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20-11-2019, 10:06 AM
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Probably churned out by a computer .
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20-11-2019, 10:09 AM
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Re: ever been told you are dead (true story)

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Probably churned out by a computer .
Yes, more than likely but also very distressing for the recipient. She just did what was necessary to change it over to her as the new, and very reluctant, account holder.
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20-11-2019, 10:30 AM
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May if you don't believe me go over to Dogsey and ask SueL who is my wife
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20-11-2019, 10:48 AM
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Re: ever been told you are dead (true story)

Originally Posted by keezoy ->
No comment to offer on that one above. But there is a psychiatric condition where people honestly believe they are dead. It is called Cotard's Delusion.
That is very creepy. Current research links the disease to Capgras delusion, a condition that causes sufferers to believe that the people around them have been replaced by imposters.
Creepier.
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Oh puleeeze!
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Oh puleeeze!
 
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