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8 Bizarre Cases of People Who Have Laughed Themselves to Death
The Sun ^ | 16 Nov 2023 | Eliza Loukou

Posted on 11/17/2023 11:05:36 AM PST by nickcarraway

From iconic movie scenes to men in drag - bizarre scenarios that sent people laughing to their death

WHEN you're in the middle of belly-aching, stitch-inducing, hysterical laughter, it can make your cheeks and tummy hurt despite the euphoria.

You might even choke out between hoots: "I'm dying of laughter!"

Little did you know, some people have come to an unhappy end just from giggling.

That's not to say the same fate will befall whenever you fall into a fit of mirth.

But a case of the cackles - though supposedly good for your health - can also result in aneurysms or suffocation.

Here are eight bizarre cases of people who have literally laughed themselves to death.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
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1 posted on 11/17/2023 11:05:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 11/17/2023 11:07:48 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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I Love To Laugh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOMqqI-kzHY


3 posted on 11/17/2023 11:09:12 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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So it’s not just a Monty Python sketch?


4 posted on 11/17/2023 11:09:23 AM PST by fwdude (.)
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Can we hope this happens to the entire democrat Party?


5 posted on 11/17/2023 11:10:19 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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we can hope


6 posted on 11/17/2023 11:12:11 AM PST by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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Reminds me of Chrysippus somehow...Heeheeheeheehee


7 posted on 11/17/2023 11:12:37 AM PST by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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Monty Python Flying Circus developed a fatal hilarity joke for “joke warfare”’.

-My dog has no nose.
-Really? Well how does he smell?
-Awful.


8 posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:26 AM PST by bosco24
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9 posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:36 AM PST by abb
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Laugh, laugh, I thought I’d die
It seemed so funny to me

—The Beau Brummels


10 posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:39 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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So it’s not just a Monty Python sketch?

That was my thought as well...

https://youtu.be/Qklvh5Cp_Bs

11 posted on 11/17/2023 11:17:23 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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That song was produced by Sly Stone of Sly & the Family Stone.


12 posted on 11/17/2023 11:19:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
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(Now I think I'll go take a nap.)

13 posted on 11/17/2023 11:21:08 AM PST by Songcraft ( )
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How is it “an unhappy end”?


14 posted on 11/17/2023 11:21:23 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?
Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.


15 posted on 11/17/2023 11:22:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Kuru - the Laughing Death
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.

16 posted on 11/17/2023 11:26:54 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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Send this report to VP Harris


17 posted on 11/17/2023 11:27:01 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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Next you’ll be telling us someone actually laughed their ass off.


18 posted on 11/17/2023 11:28:28 AM PST by bigbob
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19 posted on 11/17/2023 11:29:11 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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Underrated band


20 posted on 11/17/2023 11:35:29 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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