graveshift

[filthiestfis]

Is there a scientific reason or other why more people die at 3am than at any other hour?

[GeordiePengy]

Research has shown that most people suffer from a heart attack between 5and 7am, just as the body tends to come out of it's natural sleep pattern.

Maybe the dying at 3am is due to the bodys natural sleep and rest pattern, when it could be argued that it is at it's most relaxed.

Then again, is it actually true that more people die around 3am then at any other time?

[enotrapfodne]

well I have passed the 3 am bit so better luck manyana

[shaunnajadel]

that's really interesting, i've also noticed, maybe just from where i live, but in the cemetary, about 90% of people died in the months between may and august :s

[enotrapfodne]

i wonder if anybody has passed away on here typing a pppooost...........................

[nowaypedro]

dont ask me as I am drunk

[filthiestfis]

Its ironic that I asked that question last night as my girlfriend's grandad died from a sudden heart attack in hospital this morning, at 4am.

[dot.hawkes]

oh that must make you feel really freaked out!!! whta prompted you to ask the question in the first place? From my own family history research I have never found a time of death on a death certificate or in a burial register, i assume that a TOD is recorded when the patient dies in hospital, and also that it is established after a PM, but normally the time recorded on a medical file is not then copied to anything else. Therefore for most people it is not something they ever come across.

[filthiestfis]

Her grandad had been in hospital all week but they were giving him hospital release yesterday.

[theonlyone]

I used to work night shifts and you are at your lowest
ebb at 3-4 am so if you are going to depart it will
probably be then .