Can a person die from from lack of sleep

Can a person die from lack of sleep?

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Yes. Fatal Familiar Insomnia. Look it up.

Can A Person Really Die From Lack Of Sleep?

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Indeed they can! A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep whilst starvation will take a few weeks. Going without sleep for any length of time causes long and short-term …

Will a person die faster from total lack of sleep or starvation f…?

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Sleep. Sleep is used for refreshing the brain, without it, your brain deteriorates very fast. After about four days you start hallucinating, which could lead to suicide, after a short while you stop functioning.

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Can a person die from lack of sleep? If so why?

Q: If read yes. And if a person doesnt sleep for atleast three days they will die. Why is this?

A: Sleep depravation is not good for you, your body will become exhausted, this was one of the tortures by Nazies during WW11, to try to break prisoners down so they would talk, I don’t think you would actually die because the body would have a way to shut you down so you would get some sleep, you would not die after only three days, you would be extremely tired and may collapse though.

Can a person die from lack of sleep?

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A: Yes. Fatal Familiar Insomnia. Look it up.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Are u gonna cut down yr time here?

Q: A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks. We all do that. Spend more time here at Y!A way past our bedtime. Now that you know that going sleepless can kill you, will you cut down or spend even longer time here just to test your resilient?this is a ummmm serious survey…. cough cough…

A: Well i have been up for 10 days now and feel jus….