Can you die from 1) laughter and 2) fright?

Subject: Can you die from 1) laughter and 2) fright?

Date: Tue May 1 14:45:31 2001
Posted by Mikael
Grade level: undergrad School: college (engineering and psychology)
City: Borås State/Province: No state entered. Country: Sweden
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 988742731.Me

Message:


This is, even that you have a normally bodily funcion (no hart-problem).
I´ve heard, fpr example that many who participates in wars don´t die frpm the 
shots frpm the gun. Instead they die from the chock (I don´t know if this is the 
bodily chock (anafylactic?) - loosing bloodpressure and so on - BUT my question 
is if one can die from a psychological chock, i.e. fright)??

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