DID YOU KNOW? Death during sex is more common than you might..
Added 2023-02-09 06:36:39 +0000 UTCDID YOU KNOW? Death during sex is more common than you might think.
Some estimates, including one cited in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, claim that 0.6 percent of all sudden deaths occur during sexual intercourse. If at first that number doesn't sound particularly high, think of all the ways there are to die, then realize that this statistic means that one in every 200 sudden deaths comes during sex.
The most common root causes of death during sex include any number of cardiac episodes as well as brain hemorrhages.
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Plenty of surprisingly well-known people have died during sex acts.
Pope John XII (above left) reportedly died in 964 of a stroke during sex (although, due to his position, he was supposed to be celibate). A perhaps less believable story claims that Pope Paul II died in 1471 as a page boy was sodomizing him.
Actor David Carradine (above center), singer Michael Hutchence of INXS, and British TV host Kristian Digby all very likely died of autoerotic COULDNT BREATHE. THEY FLAGGED ASPH.....
Former vice president Nelson Rockefeller suffered a fatal heart attack in 1979 brought on by an orgasm had with his assistant (at the time, New York Magazine wrote, "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going."). And Matthew McConaughey's father, James, likewise died from a heart attack while having sex with his wife, Kay (above right, with Matthew), in 1992.
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