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We looked it up, and learned about a disease called fatal familial insomnia. [...] You can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die. Debunked here: ht
by sillysaurus3 11y ago
We looked it up, and learned about a disease called fatal familial insomnia. [...] You can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die.
Debunked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961
A small percentage of people with fatal familial insomnia don't experience insomnia, yet they still die.
In other words, they die from the disease, not the insomnia.
- idlewords 11y agoThe point of the parent comment is that you can go at least nine months without sleep and not die from it, not that lack of sleep is the cause of death in FFI.