Another Gaming Death in South Korea

[kandrathe]

I've also stayed up for 48+ hour streches on occasion (w/o naps), and all I was at the end was very tired.  However, I'm in very good shape and what I was doing during that period wasn't stressful at all.  I think it's fair to say that his physiology was already somehow "taxed" before he sat down for the 50 hour run.  The extra load of the marathon computer game session was the "last straw".
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I still don't think it is fair to characterize the "gaming" as the last straw. He could have been driving on the freeway in rush hour, or going for a walk when his body broke down. It just happened that "this" time a person on the verge of death was playing a computer game, and so that makes for great news in feeding the paranoia of "Gaming is addictive and evil". Heart failure due to stress or exercise is not new, and people expire all the time while having sex, running, or taking a dump.

Someone should have had a chat with him a year earlier, saying "Hey, Lee!, you are getting fat and lazy playing video games all the time. Find some balance in your life man! Get some exercise!" But, it was either his own bad choices or some genetic weakness that killed him.