Never diagnosed but yes. He died for a few minutes after an ice skating accident when he was like 11 or 12 or something like that, and thought that way ever since.
At the age of ten, he suffered internal bleeding when his spleen ruptured after what he claimed was an ice skating accident. However, in the Swedish metal book Blod eld död (English: "Blood Fire Death"), his brother Anders Ohlin confessed in an exclusive interview that Dead was frequently bullied in school, and one day he succumbed to a ruptured spleen which was a direct result of a severe beating by bullies. Because of the injury, he had to be rushed to a hospital, where he was, for a time, declared clinically dead. After a few years, the incident resulted in a fascination with death, and later inspired his stage name.
Oh wow, I've never heard the bullying story before. Damn, that's incredibly fucked up and especially sad since he would later get bullied by Euronymous. Poor Pelle, man. :sadness-abysmal:
Didn't he have like a mental condition where he actually believed he was dead
Never diagnosed but yes. He died for a few minutes after an ice skating accident when he was like 11 or 12 or something like that, and thought that way ever since.
Oh wow, I've never heard the bullying story before. Damn, that's incredibly fucked up and especially sad since he would later get bullied by Euronymous. Poor Pelle, man. :sadness-abysmal: