Is it possible to laugh to death

See all results matching 'mub'. Count: We have sent you a verification email. To verify, just follow the link in the message. Now Reading: OMG! Share fbshare twshare pinshare Comments 0. No kidding! One of these was Damnoen Saen-Um, who was an ice cream truck driver and is said to be dead due to laughter. According to her wife, after two minutes of non-stop laughter, he stopped breathing. She discovered that he was dead due to heart failure or asphyxiation. Some of the reasons include cardiac arrest, collapsed lungs, strangulated hernia, stroke, ruptured brain aneurysm and gelastic seizures.

But another important fact is that laughter can trigger cataplexy but cannot cause it, so cataplexy comes first. Laughter can also cause syncope, which means fainting.

Syncope is an outcome of a situation when someone is overexcited for a long period and that over-excitement leads to an abnormal rapid rate of breathing.

This in turn leads to increase in the rate of carbon dioxide loss. Laughter leads to light-headedness, which can lead to fainting. Some people black out when they laugh but still cannot control their laughter. People who have existing medical issues, laughter can be scary for them. Laughter, when it starts putting a strain on your body, can lead to deadly problems. By subscribing to newsletter, you acknowledge our privacy policy. Thanks for subscribing.

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Level 3 Progressive Fat-Burning Workout! When you laugh, you contract your stomach muscles and increase the pressure on your abdominal wall. That force can cause little parts of your bowel to poke out through small holes in your abdominal and pelvic wall — a hernia.

Even more common than that, the chronically ill and infirmed can be killed by laughter with little to no warning. Similarly, if you have bad coronary artery disease like millions of Americans , anything that gets your heart rate up can potentially cause some atherosclerotic plaque in your coronary arteries to rupture, dislodge, and block the arterial blood flow. This would happen to the same people you read about who never exercise and suddenly decide to shovel snow 1, American deaths annually or have sex , but die instead.

Even just by the fact that it changes your heart rate abruptly, laughing could drive you into a cardiac arrhythmia like atrial fibrillation. You should not tell jokes on motorcycles. Laughter itself can also cause you to pass out. Same as above, if you were landing a plane while this happened, you and everyone else on board would die. Air traffic controllers should not tell jokes.

More relatably, laughter could simply interrupt your concentration and coordination at a very delicate time. If you are walking on a high wire and you overhear someone on the ground, stories below, tell a very funny joke, the reflexive contraction of your abdominal muscles could jounce the wire, causing you to lose balance and fall to your death.

Sometimes the laughter itself may not kill you, but laughing can be a sign of something really bad that will. When he saw the finished product, he supposedly laughed until he died.

He was the first historical person to die laughing, but not the last. How dangerous can laughter really be? The most direct death by laughter reported is supposedly audiologist Ole Bentzen who, while watching A Fish Called Wanda , laughed uncontrollably. His heart beat rose to "between times per minute" until he died. An audiologist named O Bentzen does seem to have published a lot of papers on hearing aids, but there's no paper confirming his death other than the Weekly World News.

A man who died watching a comedy show called The Goodies reportedly died laughing, but he was suffering from a severe, hereditary heart condition.

No one who has "laughed themselves to death" has been in good health, so it doesn't appear that laughter alone can kill anyone. What can it do, then? Laughter can trigger cataplexy, a condition that leaves a person conscious but unable to move their muscles. However, the cataplexy comes first.