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She was a grown woman. As asinine as this contest may have been, it was her decision to participate. If she can't be expected to be responsible for herself, why should these guys be responsible for her?

Also, remember that she came in second. The woman that one drank at least as much water as she did and held it for as long so, while the nature of the contest was risky, it was not inherently deadly.

Actually the winner was damn lucky she/he didn't have a serious medical problem. They drank over two gallons of water in a short period of time.

The other person must have had a higher sodium and potassium count when they started the contest, thereby saving themselves from a similar fate.

She was a grown woman. As asinine as this contest may have been, it was her decision to participate. If she can't be expected to be responsible for herself, why should these guys be responsible for her?

Do you assume that the contests you participate in might actually kill you? It's not common knowledge that water intoxication is a potentially lethal condition.

The woman that one drank at least as much water as she did and held it for as long so, while the nature of the contest was risky, it was not inherently deadly.

Actually that shows the amount was an LD₅₀ dose. Which is classified as a lethal amount.

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As asinine as this contest may have been, it was her decision to participate. If she can't be expected to be responsible for herself, why should these guys be responsible for her?

Answer honestly. Did you know that drinking too much water could kill you before this? I doubt she did either.

If whatever release she signed didn't include to possibility of sudden death, (which I doubt the idiot DJs or the program manager had a clue of) their ass is grass. And way would a radio station put people's life at risk if they had a clue they could possibly cause multiple deaths? They did not know what they were doing. They put multiple people at risk. Only this one woman died. It could have been more.

Also, remember that she came in second. The woman that won drank at least as much water as she did and held it for as long so, while the nature of the contest was risky, it was not inherently deadly.

Hyponatremia has nothing to do with how much water one person drinks in comparison to another person or how long you "hold it".

Hyponatremia has everything to do with the degree that the sodium concentration in your bloodstream is diluted by the free water. Plasma sodium levels below 2.3 grams per liter result in cerebral edema, seizures, coma and death.

The amount of free water that will kill a 120 pound woman will be less than the amount of free water that will kill a 150 pound woman.

A free water drinking contest is as inherently dangerous as a table salt eating contest.

If you get on the radio, tell your listeners that your water drinking contest "is not inherently deadly" and somebody dies, you will get sued at best or, at worst, you will be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter or for murder depending on what the investigation proves about what you knew and when you knew it.