Aol.com - BEIJING (Sept. 17) - A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge , state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."


I don’t pretend to be the smartest man in the world.  But this seems like a pretty silly way to die.   Listen we’ve all been there.   We’ve all been so engrossed in video games or gambling that we don’t want to move.  Hell back in 1987 I almost lost a thumb due to the worst case of Nintendo Thumb you’ll ever want to see.  But I was never in danger of dying.  Because there is no rule that says you can’t eat while you play. The worst case scenario for an addicted online gamer should be they shit themselves.  And as far as I know nobody has ever died from marinating in their own crap.