Auto Necrosis

From thejournal:

Auto necrosis was what I was told the woman had. I wasn't sure what that meant until I was allowed to see her. In a room, on a hospital bed she lay. The first thing I noticed was that her left ribcage was exposed. Blackened bone laced across pulsating organs. Her right arm was atrophied and diseased. No, not diseased. Dead and rotting. Then I understood. Parts of this woman were actually rotting away, and from what she said to me, the details of which are not entirely clear, this decay was self-inflicted. She wanted herself to rot. She instigated the death of tissue and took pleasure in seeing it blacken and decompose. And she didn't realize she was dying. This much was all too clear to me as she smiled at me, this horrifying creature on the hospital bed. Auto-necrosis. This was my dream this morning. Where it came from, I have no idea.