Can you die from lack of sleep?

Can you die from lack of sleep?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What is sleep deprivation?; What is sleep restriction?; Does sleep deprivation have cumulative effect? and more...

The most likely way of dying from not sleeping enough is by falling asleep at the wheel, that's where most accidents - most deaths - would occur. Although we know from the animal experiments that it's possible to kill animals through sleep deprivation. If, as a pharmacologist, I'd stand back on that and think about well, how much sleep deprivation should a human have, it's a lot. Meaning at least a year's worth of no sleep whatsoever and that just generally doesn't happen.