“There will be plagues and pestilence and disease and death. An overflowing scourge shall cover the earth and a desolating sickness shall sweep the land. Flies shall take hold of the inhabitants of the land and maggots shall come in upon them. (See D&C 29:14-20.) “Their flesh shall f...
Cotard’s syndrome is even more drastic; in this condition, the patient claims to be dead, smelling his decaying flesh and feeling maggots gnawing and crawling all over him. The sufferers prefer to stay in cemeteries, since they are actually already dead; many refuse to eat. Cotard’s syndr...