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Bangungot or Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS)

May 29, 2008

It’s not a Heath Ledger drug cocktail sort of death.

It’s unexplained… There’s lots of theories.

The old one was pancreatitis, but I don’t believe that. It would be far too violent a death (with nausea and retching) to be a "sleep thing." My own personal theory is these people either have the QT syndrome or Brugada Syndrome. Because of a particularly harrowing sleep paralysis incident, they experience a heart arrythmia and die. This is genetic, which would explain why mostly only Southeast Asians die in this fashion despite the fact that so many people from different races experience sleep paralysis on a regular basis.

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