is it possible to sleep oneself to death

[???]

say you went to sleep one night but couldn't be bothered to get out of bed ever again and just kept going back to sleep. would you eventually die from it.

[smashingjj]

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[Warsaw]

Unless you are connected to a feeding tube, my sources say yes.

[Rockin' Cherub]

you would die from starvation, not from sleep.

[Rockin' Cherub]

dudes this is a perfect moment to fondle each others testicles

[rolmos]

Thirst, not starvation

[aurel]

"the sleep debate"

[Starla]

Originally Posted by ???

say you went to sleep one night but couldn't be bothered to get out of bed ever again and just kept going back to sleep. would you eventually die from it.

lol

[???]

i forgot to outline that i meant so regardless of whether you're being nourished or not- i meant would your brain eventually shut down simply from a lack of use. even if you were kept physically healthy otherwise.

[Starla]

Thank You for Supporting Netphoria!

[Starla]

Originally Posted by ???

i meant would your brain eventually shut down simply from a lack of use. even if you were kept physically healthy otherwise.

no that's what happens when people keep posting here

[???]

like, some people come out of comas with brain damage right? could the same thing happen just from oversleeping.

[Rockin' Cherub]

Originally Posted by ???

i forgot to outline that i meant so regardless of whether you're being nourished or not- i meant would your brain eventually shut down simply from a lack of use. even if you were kept physically healthy otherwise.

apart from the brain being a physical part of the body, no, that would not happen. it would only happen as a result from a lack of water, which affects the whole body.

[Rockin' Cherub]

Originally Posted by ???

like, some people come out of comas with brain damage right? could the same thing happen just from oversleeping.

no because ordinary sleep results in waking up

[Rockin' Cherub]

Originally Posted by rolmos

Thirst, not starvation

you're right. lack of water it is.

[???]

obviously there are many examples of prolonged sleeping periods being possible (hibernation, cryostasis, comas) but surely brains are more fallible with regard to memory functions than a computer. if you were put in cryostasis for 50 years and woke up surely there's a huge chance that you would have forgotten alot of things.

[Rockin' Cherub]

you were talking about death though.

[rolmos]

If you were nourished by tubes, you'd probably die because of all the accumulated fecal matter in your bed.

[???]

well memory loss effectively counts as brain damage, right? if you can get one form of it then i don't see why the mind couldn't fully deteriorate over a long enough period of time, even if the brain was appropriately preserved. you could become a vegetable, and thats practically death, isn't it?

[Rockin' Cherub]

no it's not. and the brain isn't just a memory storage

dean_r_kontz to thread

[???]

you do know i'm trolling right

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by ???

you do know i'm trolling right

i always wonder.

[Rockin' Cherub]

me too. if you really were you wouldn't point it out, per example

[???]

i'm a real troll. i don't play by the rules.

[Professor Fox]

Anna Nicole slept herself to death... she also slept herself to success. Therefore she's a successful corpse.

[mistle]

i was afraid something in my head would be damaged last time i got drunk. i only had a beer and some vodka and another beer, but it was like i was delirious or something i was waving my arms around for no reason and shaking all over and i couldn't see

[MonteLDS]

nah-