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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by sillysaurus3 on Friday August 14, 2015 @09:30PM (#10063956)
We looked it up, and learned about a disease called fatal familial insomnia. [...] You can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die.

Debunked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961

A small percentage of people with fatal familial insomnia don't experience insomnia, yet they still die.

In other words, they die from the disease, not the insomnia.

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Re:Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) by idlewords on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:28PM (#10064090)
The point of the parent comment is that you can go at least nine months without sleep and not die from it, not that lack of sleep is the cause of death in FFI.
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