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[Bobby Ball]

This is sort of weird and maybe morbid but I had a friend with a SCI 6-7 who passed away. This may sound weird but I think she willed herself dead. There is no cause of death but she was depressed and I believ gave up. Do you think thats possible?

[evilmac64]

YES

[wheeliebear75]

I'm sorry to hear that you lost your friend. It's never "easy" to say GOOD-BYE!

As to "Is it POSSIBLE?"....well sadly yes it's A possibility. I've also heard of people who's families & friends & coworkers said they were "a happy bubbly person" & they had no known "ailments" yet the coroners still couldn't find "cause of death" they just died of mysterious reasons.

[Trinity]

I think when no cause of death can be found it is generally put down to "SADS" Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, generally believed to be a sudden deadly cardiac arrhythmia. No signs to be seen after, no trauma etc. as the heart literally just flips into an extremely abnormal rhythm and just can't pump blood around the body until it eventually just stops. Sometimes the person may have previous fainting episodes or some clue but the majority are fit and healthy and just die in their sleep.

I don't believe someone who is otherwise fit and healthy can just give up and die otherwise there would be no suicides. I think that in severe illness, like cancer then it is possible to stop fighting although I don't know whether it makes much difference in the disease process

[Millard]

 Trinity, on 21 August 2011 - 10:19 PM, said:

I think when no cause of death can be found it is generally put down to "SADS" Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, generally believed to be a sudden deadly cardiac arrhythmia. No signs to be seen after, no trauma etc. as the heart literally just flips into an extremely abnormal rhythm and just can't pump blood around the body until it eventually just stops. Sometimes the person may have previous fainting episodes or some clue but the majority are fit and healthy and just die in their sleep.

I don't believe someone who is otherwise fit and healthy can just give up and die otherwise there would be no suicides. I think that in severe illness, like cancer then it is possible to stop fighting although I don't know whether it makes much difference in the disease process

I have to agree with Trinity. If you could will yourself to die, I would have died some 44 years ago. On about four separate occasions, I had a gun in hand, loaded, the hammer cocked and my finger on the trigger; obviously I didn't do it and I don't know why. I do believe that you can make yourself very sick when deeply depressed. I would have to go to the hospital and stay in weeks at a time with various ailments. After about five years I came out of the depression and have enjoyed living since. Anyone who has not been then cannot imagine what deep, severe depression can cause you to do or think. I have scars on my forearm where I burned myself with a cigarette. No reason really just something to do.

Good luck to all still suffering through this...it will get better.