[FairOpinion]

The point is that if there are warning signs, people need to pay attention, and take their medicines and go to emergency, when these symptoms appear and NOT wait until they "suddenly" die.

For a long time, it was thought that there are no warning signs. A couple of hours is enough time to allow people to get to the emergency room and/or call paramedics, and hopefully get to the hospital and save their lives.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Yes, I got the point. The title is poorly written. Obviously so was my post...

[P-40]

The point is that if there are warning signs, people need to pay attention,

Very true...and that applies to younger folks as well. I saw a jogger die last year from a massive heart attack...but there were no symptoms with him...and he was young.

[SuziQ]

Doesn't always help, even if one is IN the hospital. My brother developed what he thought was a kidney stone problem, and was admitted to a hospital in a town in which he was doing a house inspection, four hours from his home. He got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and started experiencing breathlessness and tightening of his chest. They moved him to ICU immediately, but he had a heart attack and actually died around 9:30 am that morning. They revived him, and he held on long enough so that his wife could reach the hospital, after the long drive. They had called her the night before, when they thought he only had kidney stones, and she was on her way up, with their oldest son's fiance so that she'd be able to drive my brother's car back home.

He died 10 minutes after her arrival, and unfortunately was almost unconscious and was not able to communicate with her.

He was only 66, and our Dad had dropped dead at the age of 64, but Mama didn't want to have an autopsy done at the time of Daddy's death. We encouraged my s-i-l to have one done, not only for the benefit of our three surviving brothers, but also for their four sons! It would be helpful to know if there had been any congenital problems that the others could work around. She had it done, but I've never learned if they found anything in particular which would explain his death.