Can people be laughed to death?

People will laugh to death. Laughter death is a rare cause of death, usually due to cardiac arrest or suffocation caused by a burst of laughter. There are cases of laughing to death from ancient Greece to modern times. 1956 used the nickname "fatal hilarity" for the first time.

Laughter can not only lead to cardiac arrest or suffocation. Laughter can also lead to contraction fatigue, collapse and fainting, leading to trauma. Faint due to laughter can be caused by focal hypothalamic lesions. Weak laughter can also affect the cerebellum.

Laughter may be a disease. Pontine or medullary infarction will make the patient laugh and then die. Patients who die like this may be mistaken for laughing.

There are many cases of laughing to death in history, from ancient Greece in the 5th century BC to Thailand in the 2nd/kloc-0th century. In modern times, people who laugh to death mainly die of heart failure or suffocation caused by laughter.