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Can sleeping kill me?

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Can sleeping kill me?

Michael Largo (Author, "Final Exits") gives expert video advice on: In which sports do players most often suffer from sudden death?; How likely am I to die on the golf course?; How likely am I to die while swimming? and more...

There's not too many people who have died from sleep. People definitely have been dying from insomnia. But there are people that have died - over 5000 - who have died from sleep-walking in the last 30 years. Sleep-walking has mostly been ignored as a medical problem. But it has to do with various different other types of psychological problems. But I guess the most interesting things are that they find people who have left their home while sleep walking. They would start to perform different types of behaviour. One poor lady was found vacuuming her front lawn in the middle of the night during a lightning storm, and that's how she died from sleep-walking.

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