Perhaps the most complex and paradoxical of all Wiki-related psychological issues, wikideath involves the symbolic elimination of the core online persona belonging by a user of a publicly-editable Wiki (or other anonymous online-community) website. However, unlike physical death, which commonly involves symptoms such as complete respiratory cessation, circulatory collapse, putrefaction, decomposition, and eventual consumption by worms and small insects, wikideath can actually be therapeutic, even life-saving. Wikideath also differs from physical death in that it is not always permanent, and indeed may last only a few weeks before either wikiresurrection or wikizombification occurs.