> When your whole brain is going haywire due to neuron loss, attributing death to sleeplessness seems premature. Or it could be another way around, as its not

> When your whole brain is going haywire due to neuron loss, attributing death to sleeplessness seems premature. Or it could be another way around, as its not easy to have experiments like this I guess we can never know. But yes, that is certainly possible that in FFI you die due to some other reason. I didn't see that info you provided but I remember reading in NGeo many years back that FFI people seem healthy in other aspects. There was 1 experiment with mices tho - after 32 days they all died witout sleep: [1] http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/sleep/basics/die-if-never-sleep.htm http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/sleep/basics/d...