What really makes people die from their sleep?
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What really makes people die from their sleep?
It isn’t something that is very common to healthy people. However, there are cases of people who die in their sleep and people close to them swore they were never sick. Someone may die in their sleep because they’ve had a heart attack, something has happened to their heart, perhaps a blood clot blocked the flow of blood so that some of the heart tissue then died or a stroke, which is usually caused by a blood vessel rupturing in their brain which causes pressure on parts of the brain and may make it unable to work properly to control other organ function like the heart. But those things don’t usually happen to a normal, healthy person. They can happen though, when we get very old because sometimes our parts wear out in our body. Every living thing has a lifespan and when the end of that time is reached, it eventually dies.
Anything that can kill you awake can kill you asleep. People have died of hypothermia, smoke inhalation, fever, heart failure and breathing failure while ostensibly sleeping. Of course, we don’t know that the trauma of dying doesn’t wake the body up at the very end; the only data is a sleeping body becoming a dead body. Also, individuals with sleep apnea often stop breathing in their sleep, sometimes when the breathing stops for too long, they just die.