Re:Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep
by dragonquest on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @05:39AM
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The current theory goes that dying peacefully in sleep is possible. Elizabeth Simpson of the Virginian-Pilot explored this question further and a nice little article summarizing the excerpts from the AHCJ discussion can be found at: http://www.healthjournalism.org/blog/2011/07/reporter-explor...
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Re:Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep
by jodrellblank on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:01AM
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My question is, given the existence of sleep paralysis which is both terrifying and plausibly able to leave "no evidence of thrashing about", if many people died "peacefully" but also awake and very scared.
Re:Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep
by gwillen on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @10:58AM
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As a sufferer of sleep paralysis, I would think it almost impossible that sleep paralysis itself could persist through dying painfully, since pain or other external stimuli (or passage of time, usually less than a minute) will generally kick you out of it.
That doesn't preclude the existence of some other paralysis mechanism, but I am not aware of any, so I think it's just wild speculation.