Can you die from not sleeping?

If your parents are doctors, please get them to reply to me. I am in a huge debate with someone about it....I say no, because I know my step dad, who is a doctor, said there was a woman who had a brain disorder that did not allow her to sleep, and she did not die. Then again I heard the record was set for 11 days for a person to sleep. So what's the verdict? I heard not sleeping will cause immunity issues and a lot more, but is this enough to kill a person?

Thanks

i'm unsure if you'll actually die.. but it'll mess u up mentally.

you can die of sleeping too much AND not sleepingPossesed_Parrot

Seriously, how do you sleep too much? Don't you just wake up?

If you don't sleep your body con not repair itself, so skin will probably all peel away, you'll go blind, energy will be sapped and a single disease could kill you off. Also there could be overgrowth of certain cells in your body causing cancer. Your nervous system will break down, your reaction time will increase, your mentallity will soon go. It's a good thing to sleep but not sleeping "itself" will notkill you. It's like sayin tobacco will kill you, it won't, it's the diseases that come from it that kill you.BlackWolf-666

Christ! Talk about worst case scenario!

If you don't sleep, you die.

Simple as.

If you don't sleep, you die.

Simple as.

luke1889

[QUOTE="luke1889"]

If you don't sleep, you die.

Simple as.

Kid-Icarus-

Woah! :o I stand corrected.

Just think how much more free time you'd have on your hands. :P

[QUOTE="luke1889"]

If you don't sleep, you die.

Simple as.

Kid-Icarus-

O_o That man is from outer space ! :P

Try it.Bourbons3

surly u wouldnt be able to, because the human brain would just force u to sleep, so ud get really tired and just sleep...

so im saying no u cant die because u would just fall asleep.

it's something like 12 days according to Nazi experiments.

I'm guessing there's alot of factors involved but it's my estimate you can't die from volutary sleep depravation. Most likely you'll pass out even if your will is strong (like trying to hold your breath, can anybody actually do that?). Using drugs like cafine can help you stay up but their likely to cause heart failure in a state of exhaustion.

[QUOTE="Kid-Icarus-"][QUOTE="luke1889"]

If you don't sleep, you die.

Simple as.

rohver

In general. Its maybe not as simple as that though;

Vietnam man handles three decades without sleep

O_o That man is from outer space ! :P

thats not possible.....

yeah it can kill you

I'm not a doctor though, but from the first responder first aid course i took (i'm a volunteer firefighter) they didn't cover this lol...but i want to say it's like at 100 hours of staying awake constantly that it kills you...but that would probaly be like working hard and staying up for 100 hours....haha what do i know, i'm just hired from the neckdown, i'm not paid to think :P