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To: BushCountry
Death rate of young dying from fainting accidents. I could not find it. The chances of an extremely young marathon athlete fainting and dying has to be a close as to winning the lottery. I think even a person fainting has a survival reflex to prevent massive injury.

I seen people faint in the Marines from locking their knees while standing in attention for long periods of time. They collapsed straight down, like they were falling in on themselves. Never once was any of them hurt or hit their head hard.

Sigh, my brother's roommate in college dropped dead there on the tennis court.   It is a Christian college and way back then in rural Georgia, there was not much of a counter-culture lifestyle.

81 posted on 05/27/2020 1:51:46 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

Sigh, my brother’s roommate in college dropped dead there on the tennis court.

From hitting his head? There is a big difference to dying of a medical reason and physical trauma caused by a fainting spell. This is what we are discussing. I seen fainting and epileptic seizures and not once seen anyone seriously hurt because of the fall. As I stated the fainting spells I seen, the person seemed to have a protective instinctual reaction and collapsed inward on themselves.


92 posted on 05/28/2020 5:52:46 AM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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