My take is that Karl Friston's description of depersonalization is a technical description of the partition that occurs in the neural communication graph, along

My take is that Karl Friston's description of depersonalization is a technical description of the partition that occurs in the neural communication graph, along with some hints of the qualitative experience of that partition. Ego-death on the other hand is a name that the community of connoisseurs have given to a common qualitative experience, which does not attempt to explain the underlying physical process that causes it.