Twitch Streamer Dies During 24 Hour Charity Stream

[VerticalDiscussions]

Well, did he not spent the day smoking aswell? I heard he was an active smoker, which combined with this eye\brain straining activity could have caused a stroke.

[jaggysnake57]

1 hour ago, bigneo said:

Black humour is like food - not everybody gets it.

so that makes it excusable, especially from a member of staff?

[suicidalfranco]

7 minutes ago, jaggysnake57 said:

so that makes it excusable, especially from a member of staff?

yes

[Accursed Entity]

On 2/22/2017 at 7:41 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

If that was true there'd be a story like this every day from somewhere in the world  

 

Pulmonary embolism IS actually pretty common in hospitals. As a respiratory therapist I see this every day. One of the most common causes of this is when a blood clot from the legs goes up to a lung artery causing stress and eventually death. This varies depending on how bad the situation is. 

 

People who sits all day have more chance of developing a blood clot in a leg. My aunt just recently survived one. While it can be treated, more than one death does happens every day in every country because of this. That common is.

[vanished]

4 hours ago, Accursed Entity said:

*snip*

Hm, I really need to start moving more or my joke from earlier is gonna come true  

[Master Disaster]

On 23/02/2017 at 8:13 PM, Mutoh said:

This isn't even the first case of somebody dropping dead from sleepless gaming sessions and I highly doubt the 20 year old kids in Korea and Taiwan that died from similar circumstances were high on meth.

 

 

There might be other health reasons as to why something like that could happen but blaming it on drugs is a bit irresponsible IMO. Also just cause you haven't experienced it yourself doesn't mean it isn't possible. 

Err what, I didn't blame anything on drugs. My comment was a direct response to another comment and if you read it in context that's obvious.

 

I also didn't say people haven't died while live streaming/gaming for long periods, I'm aware its happened before. What I actually said was most of the time its not because of lack of sleep and there's usually other circumstances involved.

[Teddy07]

Am I a bad person if I don't care?

[Kamina]

Most weeks during school I get very little sleep and I'm up for about 20 hours. Now I'm scared.     ._.

[Trixanity]

1 hour ago, Kamina said:

Most weeks during school I get very little sleep and I'm up for about 20 hours. Now I'm scared.     ._.

Why? No need to be. Sleep deprivation is not dangerous short-term but is not good for your health and overall well-being in the short term and even worse long term. It's not lethal what you're describing.

 

It's highly unlikely that this person died of sleep deprivation. It may have contributed but it seems more like it was an unhealthy lifestyle of sitting down for hours upon hours with no breaks and lots of smoking and drinking. The common theory is that this caused a clot to form and travel to his lungs causing death. That's one of the reasons they recommend you to get up once in a while either working at a desk all day or when you take long flights: to avoid clots forming in your legs.

 

While not deadly, I would recommend changing your lifestyle though. It isn't healthy to sacrifice sleep. I used to do it a lot in my teens with all-nighters and irregular sleeping patterns. It was a pointless thing to do in hindsight. Might as well have scheduled my time differently and I wouldn't have been so tired all the time. So bottom line: change your ways now - you're not gaining anything. In fact you might actually get less done because both the quality and quantity of your work will fall when you're not in good condition (sleep, eat, drink, exercise = healthy mind and body). Many of the countries where people work 12 hour shifts are less productive than those who work 8. They spend more hours doing less because their employees are overworked and therefore the extra hours have very little impact on their productivity (they might keep decent pace the first 4-6 hours but then they start to decline and the more hours you tack on the bigger the decline).

 

I'll end my rant here :-)

 

 

[Lazmarr]

On 22/02/2017 at 11:27 PM, coztimo said:

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/22/twitch-streamer-dies-during-charity-marathon

 

Really sad stuff since this guy had a wife and three kids. As always, please remember to stay safe and take breaks while gaming!

Quite possible he died of a stroke. Smoking increases risk of stroke and tiredness etc increase BP. Quite likely to have had a thromboemolism.