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Re:Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain by rosser on Thursday October 17, 2013 @07:45PM (#6568924)
There is no evidence that it's possible to die directly from sleep deprivation.

Perhaps not directly, as the actual cause of death in FFI is unknown, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

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Re:Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain by sillysaurus2 on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:04PM (#6569008)
Actually, the insomnia isn't the cause of death. FFI is just a bad name for the disease. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961
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