2007-05-02 05:59:30 · 16 answers · asked by Destiny 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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It's true...
2007-05-02 06:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes...
"According to Dr. Adolph M. Hutter Jr., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, “Otherwise healthy people can be scared to death. This has been documented after earthquakes and also following emotional distress of an extreme degree [such as learning of the sudden death of a loved one]. An event like this can have two immediate effects on the heart: It can cause a weakening of the heart, so a patient might develop heart failure; or it can cause an arrhythmia, which can cause sudden death.”
Dr. Hutter qualifies that people in these cases may have had a silent, underlying heart problem that no one knew about. He also emphasizes that such fatalities are the result of extreme and unusual stress—not the kind of thing you’re going to experience when a 4-year-old appears at your door in a Casper costume."
I was watching a special on tv a while back and it had a mom who was running around chasing her two year old and when she hid behind a corner and jumped out and scared her kid, and he froze up and died. Literally scared to death. I can't remember the name but it was sad. His heart skipped and went into cardiac arrest...
2007-05-02 13:16:47 · answer #2 · answered by Pinkie Time to Take over the World 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only think of it happening if the person had a heart attack. I've been scared into almost fainting but I know I would not have died unless I hit my head on a rock or something after I fell over.
I don't know of any 'proof' of it happening just from fright without other medical complications.
2007-05-02 13:03:47 · answer #3 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it is possible, and usually it's because of a heart attacked caused by the reaction of fear. I've also watched it on TV, although this is not a very truthful source, but I'm sure there's info on the web..
here's what Wikipedia.org says: generally the most common reaction to death, is an intense fear of or sometimes hatred of and frustration with it...
2007-05-02 13:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by succubus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a lady who got a phone call from someone who said things that scarred her to have a heart attack and she could have died so I am sure it can happen. But you wouldn't just die from the scare it would probably be a combination of things that stem from the initial scare.
2007-05-02 13:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by ktychaos13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I came close on Sunday. Mike was at a meeting. I was out on the patio watering plants, etc., I decided to sit down and enjoy the solitude and have a cigarette, I lit it, and when I sat on the chair, he was sitting in it, don't know how he got there so quietly. Don't think I took a breath for like 2 minutes. Scared the bejeezus out of me.
2007-05-02 13:03:17 · answer #6 · answered by PhoeniXoXoXoX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke 21:26
2007-05-02 13:06:27 · answer #7 · answered by alphaomegadisciple 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a bit extreme. But someone with serious heart problems can get very very stressed and have a herat attack, but not the average person on the street.
2007-05-02 13:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's possible that someone can be scared so badly that it causes them to have a heart attack.
2007-05-02 13:02:43 · answer #9 · answered by ♫ frosty ♫ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is true, but dont want to search on the net for proof
2007-05-02 13:02:41 · answer #10 · answered by Countess Bathory 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the fatality rate, but I suppose it could occur with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, given the surge of catecholamines.
2007-05-02 13:04:10 · answer #11 · answered by House M.D. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋