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Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a fit of laughter. Though uncommon, death by laughter has been recorded from the times of ancient Greece to modern times.
Nov 11, 2023 · Can people actually die of laughter? Although it's highly unlikely, it's technically possible — and there have been documented cases of laughter-related deaths in the past, doctors told Live...
- Kiley Price
Learn about the possible causes of death from laughing too hard, such as brain aneurysm, asthma attack, gelastic seizures, and more. Find out when to seek medical help and how to enjoy laughing safely.
- Jim Goad
- Alex Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell was a humble British bricklayer who laughed himself to death one evening in 1975 while watching the “Kung Fu Kapers” episode of The Goodies, which was the name of a hairy, hippie-era comedy trio in the Monty Python vein.
- Damnoen Saen-Um. In 2003, this Thai ice-cream truck driver perished in his sleep after about two minutes of nonstop laughter. His wife witnessed the entire event and tried waking him up to no avail.
- Ole Bentzen. The 1988 movie comedy A Fish Called Wanda features a scene where actor Michael Palin gets some French fries stuffed up his nose. In 1989, a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen found the scene so sidesplittingly funny that his heart rate rose to an estimated 250-500 beats per minute, leading to a heart attack as he laughed his way into the afterlife.
- Chrysippus. One fine day in the third century BC—which, in case you don’t know, is around three hundred years before the infant Jesus slimily plopped out of his mom’s allegedly virgin womb—this Greek Stoic philosopher decided it’d be a good idea to get his donkey absolutely shitfaced drunk on wine.
May 23, 2022 · Intense laughter expresses itself in violent convulsions and temporary loss of bodily control. Who among us hasn’t been part of a tickle-fest that verged on sadomasochistic brutality?
- Caleb Madison
Jan 2, 2004 · The web page explores the possibility of dying from laughter, citing some real and fictional cases of people who laughed themselves to death. It also discusses the health effects of laughter and the scientific evidence for or against its benefits.
Yes, humans can die of laughter – and many have - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
