This Day in History: Austrian-American logician and mathematician Kurt Godel died on this day in 1978. Godel developed an obsessive fear of being poisoned and refused to eat food prepared by anyone but his wife. When she became ill and was hospitalized, he starved to death. Godel weighed 65 pounds when he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance."
Godel's obsessive fear of being poisoned is what you call a persecutory delusion. A persecutory delusion is a common type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that harm is going to occur to oneself by a persecutor, despite a clear lack of evidence. The person may believe that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people. Persecution delusions are very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible, albeit improbable, to the completely bizarre.
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