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Patient checks, weekly, whether a specific actor is still alive. The actor is 74, healthy, and making a new film. Patient cannot explain the compulsion.
Will outlive the actor. Will continue checking posthumously.
None. The ritual is its own reward.
Patients with Severe 'Is Famous Person Dead' Google Ritual typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Severe 'Is Famous Person Dead' Google Ritual present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Celebritas mortalitas verificatio, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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