They don't realize that they're dead, $r. They are cursed to relive the last memory they had before the town was eaten alive from the inside out. Most of them, anyway. Some were less fortunate.$B$BYou thought the Scourge did this? The Scourge did not yet exist and if they had, we would have at least put up a damned fight.$B$BNo, this was the result of a plague that came out of Scholomance and ravaged the town. It was horrifying and devastating. None survived.$B$BNow leave me to my sorrows.