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Rare illness made man a ‘walking corpse’

A man suffering a rare brain disorder was so convinced he was a zombie that he would hang out in graveyards to be close to death.

Writing in New Scientist magazine, the patient, identified only as Graham, says that after a failed suicide attempt, he was convinced he had in fact died, and was one of the “walking dead”.

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