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December 14, 2016

Kratingdaeng did it

In 2013, a 24-year-old advertising copywriter in Indonesia died after prolonged sleep deprivation,
collapsing a few hours after tweeting β€œ30 hours of working and still going strooong.” She went into a coma and died the next morning. A family acquaintance wrote on Facebook, β€œShe died because too much of overtime working, and too much kratingdaeng attacks her heart.” Kratingdaeng is the Thai name for the product known elsewhere as Red Bull. How to Sleep - The Atlantic

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 14, 2016 7:52 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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"Red Bull gives you wiiiiings!"

Posted by: Rich Fader at December 14, 2016 1:51 PM

Working 30 hours had nothing to do with it but was mentioned to make the Red Bull use justified some how.

If she ate 300 choc chip cookies and washed em down with red bull that would have killed her weak ass too.

Born to die and everything in between was meaningless.

Posted by: ghostsniper at December 14, 2016 2:54 PM

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