Can you die from laughing too much?

**TimberWolf** · 2 March 2011, 09:58

In 1989, a Danish audiologist, Ole Bentzen, died laughing while watching A Fish Called Wanda. His heart was estimated to have beaten at between 250 and 500 beats per minute, before he succumbed to cardiac arrest.
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Strange, as I didn't find it all that funny.

**xoggoth** · 2 March 2011, 10:04

Darn, I was hoping Gordon Brown had died.

**xoggoth** · 2 March 2011, 10:07

One always hears after deaths that the deceased was kind, friendly and loved by everyone so obviously being nice is often fatal too. Be a miserable old bugger and live for ever..

Can you die from laughing too much?