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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ganegconsul" data-source="post: 13979335" data-attributes="member: 442955">[FONT=&quot]Any video game player worth their salt knows the feeling. Just ONE more level, ONE more achievement, ONE last item before meal time, sleep, or (shudder) some actual human interaction. Four hours later, and you’re still staring blankly at the screen, mouth ajar, hands balled up into an arthritic mass of digits, and any thoughts you once had about tending to your basic human needs are long since forgotten or pushed off indefinitely as you plug along for that never ending quest for virtual fulfillment. It’s easy to forget that our own bodies need as much tending to as our farms or guilds, heck, maybe even more so. Here’s a list of people who died neglecting their real-life health bars for their video game equivalents.  [/FONT]    The family of a 20-year-old British man who died as a result of a blood clot that formed after playing <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/violent-videos-psych/story?id=13942571" target="_blank">video games</a> for up to 12 hours a day is speaking out about the health risks obsessive gaming can pose.  <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/extreme-gamer-dies-pulmonary-embolism/story?id=14212015#.ULxLtGexvfA" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/extreme-gamer-dies-pulmonary-embolism/story?id=14212015#.ULxLtGexvfA</a>    [FONT=&quot]. An 18 year old Taiwanese gamer named Chuang reportedly died in July of 2012 after a marathon 40 hour "Diablo III" session. And get this, he was at AN INTERNET CAFE at the time.[/FONT]    [FONT=&quot]. The earliest known deaths to have occurred while playing video games are attributed to Jeff Dailey and Peter Burkowski who both expired (they didn't die, they expired ) while achieving fantastically high scores on the popular arcade title "Berzerk", by Atari.[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]In 1981, Dailey popped a quarter into the robot-killing machine to score an alleged 16,660 points, his personal best. Moments later, he collapsed and was pronounced dead of a heart attack at the tender young age of 19.  [/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]Burkowski died under similar circumstances less than a year later when, after frequenting his local game room "Friar Tuck's" in Calumet City, Illinois for months, he finally pushed himself too far. Shortly after entering his initials on the Berzerk score board for not one but two record high scores, he also fell victim to cardiac arrest.. 20 Year Old Man Dies While Playing XBox [/FONT][FONT=&quot]South Korean 33-year Old Man died of heart failure[/FONT]    [FONT=&quot]. In 2007, a 26-year-old man, surnamed Zhang, from Northeast China, died of heart failure after a week-long marathon of online gaming during a national holiday[/FONT]    [FONT=&quot]. The 28-year-old wife and mother of three from Sacramento, California willingly participated in a local radio station’s giveaway promotion entitled "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" in which she drank over two gallons of water and refused to urinate in hopes of obtaining a Nintendo Wii.This severe lapse of judgment ended in death by water intoxication, and, to my knowledge, no prizes of any kind[/FONT]     [FONT=&quot]. South Korean man Lee Seung Seop was an industrial boiler repair man and college graduate before a gripping Starcraft addiction turned deadly in 2005.[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]Lee had reportedly told his friends and relatives he was about to stop playing and return home only moments before he closed his eyes and fell off his chair, being pronounced dead at a near-by hospital shortly thereafter. The final cause of death was heart failure caused by exhaustion and dehydration.[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]. Anna-Lee Kehoe, a thirteen year old girl, was casually talking, hanging out and playing with her Xbox 360 before muttering, "Mom, I can’t breathe." She suffered a heart attack so severe that she was left brain dead and on life-support.<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/8-people-who-died-playing-video-games/autumn-spragg" target="_blank">http://www.ranker.com/list/8-people-who-died-playing-video-games/autumn-spragg</a>  [/FONT]  [FONT=&quot] <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/nerd.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":nerd:" title="Nerd    :nerd:" data-shortname=":nerd:" />[/FONT]</blockquote>

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