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		rosser on Oct 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain There is no evidence that it's possible to die directly from sleep deprivation. Perhaps not directly, as the actual cause of death in FFI is unknown, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia

sillysaurus2 on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

Actually, the insomnia isn't the cause of death. FFI is just a bad name for the disease. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961

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