RICHARD
08-29-2003, 03:52 PM
Thai man dies laughing
August 22, 2003
Doctors were puzzled and villagers spooked when an ice cream truck driver in northern Thailand apparently laughed himself to death in his sleep, local officials and news reports said.
Damnoen Saen-um, 52, was sleeping at his home in Muang district of Phrae province, 470 kilometres north of Bangkok, late on Tuesday night when he began mumbling and then laughing, said his wife, Luan, 51.
Khom Chat Luek newspaper quoted Luan as saying she had already been awakened by a knocking at the door when her husband started laughing. No one was at the door and she could not wake up her laughing husband before he stopped breathing.
The newspaper quoted the local village headman as saying neighbours believed the devil had been knocking at the door to take Damroen away, but since he had led a good life he allowed him to die happy.
However, Somsak Wantaniwong, a doctor at Phrae Hospital who signed Damroen's death certificate, said the man probably died of heart failure.
But he said he could not yet be sure of the cause of death because Damroen had been in good health, had no history of heart problems and had been working normally the day before.
"I have never seen a case like this," Dr Somchai Chadrabhand, deputy director-general of the Mental Health Department, was quoted as saying. "But it is possible that a person could have a heart seizure while laughing or crying too hard in their sleep."
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I want to know that he was laughing AT!!:eek:
August 22, 2003
Doctors were puzzled and villagers spooked when an ice cream truck driver in northern Thailand apparently laughed himself to death in his sleep, local officials and news reports said.
Damnoen Saen-um, 52, was sleeping at his home in Muang district of Phrae province, 470 kilometres north of Bangkok, late on Tuesday night when he began mumbling and then laughing, said his wife, Luan, 51.
Khom Chat Luek newspaper quoted Luan as saying she had already been awakened by a knocking at the door when her husband started laughing. No one was at the door and she could not wake up her laughing husband before he stopped breathing.
The newspaper quoted the local village headman as saying neighbours believed the devil had been knocking at the door to take Damroen away, but since he had led a good life he allowed him to die happy.
However, Somsak Wantaniwong, a doctor at Phrae Hospital who signed Damroen's death certificate, said the man probably died of heart failure.
But he said he could not yet be sure of the cause of death because Damroen had been in good health, had no history of heart problems and had been working normally the day before.
"I have never seen a case like this," Dr Somchai Chadrabhand, deputy director-general of the Mental Health Department, was quoted as saying. "But it is possible that a person could have a heart seizure while laughing or crying too hard in their sleep."
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I want to know that he was laughing AT!!:eek: