“Flatulence can be deadly. I recall a thread on FR at least 10 years back where a huge fat guy in a small room died from poisoning the air with his own flatulence while sleeping.
Probably an urban legend.”
I think that story may have originated from the sheep herder dying in the same way a while back. The methane killed him.
Urban legend? Yeppers.
It was actually busted on ‘Mythbusters’ a couple years ago. The average human body cannot produce enough methane to kill itself by suffocation.
Although I have been in a room where a flatus touched off by someone made me WANT to die.