2.19.2013

Stay Cool – Your Life May Depend on It

Strong emotions — positive or negative — can kill.

Grief, excitement, fear, ecstasy can cause cardiac arrest from ventricular fibrillation.

 (See “Can a Person Be Scared To Death?” in the January 30, 2009 edition of Scientific American.)

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